seventeen
pronunciation
How to pronounce seventeen in British English:
UK [ˌsevnˈtiːn]
How to pronounce seventeen in American English:
US [ˌsevnˈtiːn]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
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- Adjective:
- being one more than sixteen
Word Origin
- seventeen
- late Old English seofontyne; see seven + -teen. Replacing Old English form seofon-teoða. Compare German siebzehn, a contraction of Middle High German siben-zehen.
Example
- 1. A thousand kilograms of recycled paper saves seventeen trees !
- 2. She had seventeen children and two of them died .
- 3. I sold your father that house seventeen years ago .
- 4. Try to imagine exactly seventeen balloons in your head , but without counting them .
- 5. You wouldn 't match seventeen balloons to seventeen spools by sight alone .