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XVII

XVII

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A Roman numeral meaning seventeen
  • numeral
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  • When counting in Roman numerals, XVII is the correct way to write the number 17.
  • Kazembe XVII
  • Mwata Kazembe XVII
  • History XVII

Examples

  • The Herrnhuters or Brethren church movement is the first Latvian Awakening. XVII century Herrnhuters.

    Blog text (9)
  • (n9) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, "2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic" (report presented at the XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico: August 2008).

    Academic text (2009)
  • Be a sculptor! The genuine ancient Christian art from the XVII and XVIII centuries.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The third and final resonance on this theme of pulsation is found in Chapter XVII.

    Academic text (2017)
  • So from the time my elder brother Kazembe XVII initiated this as an annual event, people have been flocking.

    Academic text (2006)
  • "It's a mock-up, done with ancient drawings... ...of tools created by Girolamo Fumagalli... ...by the end of the XVII century, which seems to have magical features."

  • In 1971, Kazembe XVII celebrated his decade as Mwata by formally initiating the Mutomboko as an annual tradition.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Article XVII (as amended in 1986) allows dual Jordanian and foreign (ajnabi, non-Arab) citizenship.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Italian pennant bearers of the XVII century were frequently... known to patrol the rampart on the lookout for Turkish invaders.

  • In the Roman numeral system, the number XVII represents seventeen.

Synonyms

seventeen
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A number that comes after sixteen and before eighteen

is the numeral form rather than the word form of the same quantity
xvii
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A Roman numeral for 17

is identical in meaning but written in uppercase letters

Surface Forms

XVII roman numeral
17 cardinal digit
seventeen cardinal word

Etymology

XVII is a Roman numeral made of letters that stand for numbers: X is '10', V is '5' and I is '1', so XVII is 10 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 17. That's why XVII means the number 'seventeen'.