seventeen

[sev-uhn-teen]

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noun

a cardinal number, 10 plus 7.
a symbol for this number, as 17 or XVII.
a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

amounting to 17 in number.
(initial capital letter, italics)��a novel (1916) by Booth Tarkington.

seventeen

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noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and seven and is a prime number See also number
a numeral, 17, XVII, etc, representing this number
the amount or quantity that is seven more than ten
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 17 units

determiner

1. amounting to seventeen
  seventeen attempts
2. ( as pronoun )
  seventeen were sold

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Word History and Origins

Origin of seventeen¹

before 900; Middle English seventene, Old English ��ǴڴǲԳ�ŧ�Ա� (cognate with Dutch zeventien, German siebzehn ). See seven, -teen

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Word History and Origins

Origin of seventeen¹

Old English ��ǴڴǲԳ�ī��Ա�

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Meanwhile, the feds have axed the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the nation’s sole drug use survey, abruptly laying off all seventeen researchers on April 1.

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"There's seventeen different species of tree across the road," he said.

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But training can vary and includes practice with auditory discrimination too, such as how to distinguish separate sounds in words like seventy and seventeen, and free and three.

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“It has been seventeen years since The Black Parade was sent to the MOAT,” the band wrote Tuesday in a tour announcement on Instagram.

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As of April 2024, seventeen states and the District of Columbia have adopted the compact, jurisdictions that comprise 209 electoral votes.

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