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seventeen

/ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/noun, adjective3 syllables

Seventeen means: being one more than sixteen.

Synonyms for seventeen3

noun, as in the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one

17, XVII

adjective, as in being one more than sixteen

17, xvii, cardinal

What does seventeen mean?2

adjective

1

being one more than sixteen

noun

1

the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with seventeen?51

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Seventeen in a sentence

  • At the age of seventeen, he fled his native village.CM
  • Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.human600
  • The class was made up of seventeen children.orge
  • A boy of seventeen is often as tall as his father.CK
  • Fadil was about seventeen years old at the time.OsoHombre
  • She got married at the age of seventeen.CK
  • Some giraffes reach a height of more than seventeen feet.Amastan
  • It has been seventeen years since his aunt died.Swalis

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