Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The cardinal number equal to 16 + 1.
- n. The 17th in a set or sequence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- One more than sixteen or less than eighteen, being the sum of seven and ten: a cardinal numeral.
- n. The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven.
- n. A symbol representing this number, as 17, or XVII, or xvii.
Wiktionary
- n. The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. One more than sixteen; ten and seven added.
- n. The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
- n. A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
- adj. being one more than sixteen
Etymologies
- From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Compare Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīne; see septm̥ in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Here at Sidelines, we have what we call the seventeen second rule," said Laurie Whittaker, co-owner with Marty Kildea of Sidelines, the popular gay owned and operated Wilton Manors,”
“Caloocan was supposed to contain seventeen thousand inhabitants.”
“There was an unusual concentration between 1987 and 2003, five in seventeen years.”
“Why, the dues he pays would keep me in seventeen pairs of shoes if I was nannygoat enough to want 'em.”
“UNH would go 3 as great as out upon the subsequent receive as great as with 4th & seventeen from the 13, flog the 7-yard punt in to which WIND.”
“Even though a director is being pulled in seventeen different directions and is incredibly busy, Leterrier spoke to us for almost twenty minutes and was incredibly open and honest about how the film had been going.”
Director Louis Leterrier On Set Interview CLASH OF THE TITANS – Collider.com
“More than one million copies of the books have been sold in seventeen languages.”
“Experts say the chance of twins being born with such different physical characteristics is about one in seventeen million. (w/pic)”
“I yelled at ST for practically everything, since I was feeling pulled in seventeen directions at once.”
“That means no one under seventeen is admitted without parent or guardian.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seventeen’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 181 more...
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adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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and you and I
Character sketches: people in words.
bitter, dignity, seventeen, mouth, eccentric, maiden, scientist, daughter, cynic, traveller, rogue, bones and 8 more...
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Number words
A list of some words for numbers (mostly cardinal numbers, but a few other important ones that have short descriptions).
aleph-one, aleph-null, infinity, googolplex, googol, trillion, billion, myllion, million, myriad, great gross, thousand and 43 more...
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My Words are Numbered
Names of numbers.
zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and 61 more...
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I Am
Words that describe me!
seventeen, redheaded, sarcastic, persnickety, ambitious, daydreamy, teasing, wry
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