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SEVENTEEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("seventeen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Derivation:
seventeen (being one more than sixteen)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than sixteen
Synonyms:
17; seventeen; xvii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Derivation:
seventeen (the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one)
Context examples:
And is she, at seventeen, just entering into life, just beginning to be known, to be wondered at because she does not accept the first offer she receives?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Yes, I know there is, till I am seventeen.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If you don't mind my expressin' my feelin's, Mr. Scott, I'll make free to say you're seventeen kinds of a damn fool an' all of 'em different, an' then some.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A natural number greater than seventeen and less than nineteen and the quantity that it denotes.
(Eighteen, NCI Thesaurus)
When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And at Lyme too, only seventeen miles off, he would be near enough to hear, if people thought there was anything to complain of.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
On the table lay two banknotes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every seventeen hours.
(Every Seventeen Hours, NCI Thesaurus)
Cabin-boy at twelve, ship’s boy at fourteen, ordinary seamen at sixteen, able seaman at seventeen, and cock of the fo’c’sle, infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself—navigation, mathematics, science, literature, and what not.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
