seventeen
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- numeral
- /ˌsɛvənˈtiːn/
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- The participants in this study were seventeen early childhood teachers on the Texas-Mexico border.
- seventeen years
- a seventeen-year-old
- at age seventeen
It's important that the Member State will own these seventeen goals as their own goals.
- It's important that the Member State will own these seventeen goals as their own goals.
- I enjoy the first hit of that thing and the other seventeen hits I don't enjoy.
- No, not just a newspaper, but the Financial Times hidden all the way on page seventeen way at the bottom.
Examples
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His sons help, but at fourteen and seventeen, they too spend most of their time making blocks.
Academic text (2008) -
American business interests should not be further handicapped by the seventeen-year-old trade embargo with Vietnam.
Academic text (1992) -
It's important that the Member State will own these seventeen goals as their own goals.
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No, not just a newspaper, but the Financial Times hidden all the way on page seventeen way at the bottom.
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A daughter who has brought only happiness into our home... - for seventeen years.
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Seventeen years I've wanted that item, and have been trying to get it.
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The heroine, Elena Gilbert, is seventeen years old at the beginning of the series.
Academic text (2013) -
Seventeen years ago, I headed an investigation... ...into the murder of Sebastian Deardon.
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LaVerne Lydia Peterson, my mother, was seventeen years old, a white high school dropout.
Fiction book (1990) -
She will be seventeen years old next month, which means she can finally apply for a driving permit.
Synonyms
Compounds
A celebration for a girl's seventeenth birthday that people see as an important moment in her life
A large noisy insect in North America that appears in big groups about every 17 years
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Seventeen is made from seven and teen, where teen once meant 'ten' or 'and ten'. So seventeen is 'seven plus ten', which is why it names the number 17.