Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 16 + 1.
- noun The 17th in a set or sequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- One more than sixteen or less than eighteen, being the sum of seven and ten: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven.
- noun A symbol representing this number, as 17, or XVII, or xvii.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective One more than sixteen; ten and seven added.
- noun The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
- noun A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as
XVII and in Arabic numerals as17 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
- adjective being one more than sixteen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"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,
The Bilerico Project 2010
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Caloocan was supposed to contain seventeen thousand inhabitants.
Memorial Day: Burning Pols in Effigy « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Why, the dues he pays would keep me in seventeen pairs of shoes if I was nannygoat enough to want 'em.
CHAPTER I 2010
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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.
The CAA Today: Road Warriors admin 2009
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More than one million copies of the books have been sold in seventeen languages.
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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.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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There was an unusual concentration between 1987 and 2003, five in seventeen years.
Prime numbers of my lifetime nwhyte 2010
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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 2010
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Experts say the chance of twins being born with such different physical characteristics is about one in seventeen million. (w/pic)
Twins Born with Rare Skin Color Differences | Impact Lab 2006
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I yelled at ST for practically everything, since I was feeling pulled in seventeen directions at once.
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