seventeenadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsɛvnˈtiːn/,

/ˈsɛvntiːn/, U.S.

/ˌsɛvənˈtin/,

/ˈsɛvənˌtin/

Forms:

α. early Old English seofontiene- (in compounds), Old English seofantyne, Old English seofentyne, Old English–early Middle English seofontene, Old English–early Middle English seofontyne, late Old English–1600s seuentene, early Middle English sceouentene (south-western), early Middle English seouentene (south-west midlands), early Middle English souentene (south-western), early Middle English souentine (south-western), Middle English cevyntene, Middle English seuenetene, Middle English seuenten, Middle English seventen, Middle English–1500s seuyntene, Middle English–1600s seuenteen, Middle English–1600s seventene, Middle English– seventeen, 1500s–1600s seauenteen, 1500s–1600s seauenteene, 1500s–1600s seuenteene, 1500s–1600s seventeene, 1600s seaventeen, 1600s seaventeene, 1800s siventeen (Irish English), 1900s seb'nteen (U.S. regional (in African-American usage)); Scottish pre-1700 sawintene, pre-1700 seaveintine, pre-1700 seaventene, pre-1700 seaventine, pre-1700 seavintein, pre-1700 seavinteine, pre-1700 seavintin, pre-1700 seawinteine, pre-1700 seventein, pre-1700 seventene, pre-1700 sevetein, pre-1700 sevintein, pre-1700 sevinten, pre-1700 sevintene, pre-1700 sevinttene, pre-1700 sevynten, pre-1700 sevyntene, pre-1700 seweintein, pre-1700 sewintein, pre-1700 sewinteine, pre-1700 sewinten, pre-1700 sewintene, pre-1700 sewinteyne, pre-1700 sewinttein, pre-1700 sewnteine, pre-1700 sewnten, pre-1700 sewyntein, pre-1700 sewynten, pre-1700 sewyntene, pre-1700 seyntene, pre-1700 1700s– seventeen, 1800s seeventeen, 1900s seaventeen, 1900s– seiventeen, 1900s– seivinteen, 1900s– siventeen.

β. Scottish pre-1700 senten, 1700s synteen, 1700s–1800s seenteen, 1800s sinteen, 1800s syneteen.

Also represented by the numerical symbols 17, xvii, XVII.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sawentēne , sowentēne , sauwentēne , sauntēne , santēne , also siguntēne , siuguntēne , sogentēne (West Frisian santjin , santsijn ), Middle Dutch seventien , soventien , seventhien , zeventien (Dutch zeventien ), Old Saxon sivuntehan (Middle Low German seventein ), Old High German sipenzehen (Middle High German sibenzehen , German siebzehn ), Old Icelandic sjautján (Icelandic sautján , seytján ), Norwegian syttan , Swedish sjutton , Old Danish sjuten (Danish sytten ) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of ten adj. (compare -teen comb. form).Note on Old English. As with other cardinal numerals, Old English often shows use with genitive plural of the noun (compare quot. OE at sense A. 1). This is originally use as noun, but the construction merges with attributive use as adjective in Middle English. Note on forms. For discussion of form types, see seven adj. For the development of the second element in English see discussion at -teen comb. form.

A cardinal numeral represented by 17 in arabic numerals or by xvii, XVII in roman.

A. adj.

1. One more than sixteen.On the construction in quot. OE see etymological note.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > seventeen

seventeeneOE

septendecimal1886

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xviii. 240 Wæs he Wulfhere Mercna cyning seofontyne winter.

OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) vi. 88 On Engla lande hæfð se lengsta dæg seofontyne tida.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8895 A kniȝt of dede vertuous Þat on hir ȝat kniȝtes seuentene.

1455 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1890–1 (1891) 15 147 (MED) Item, seventeen quayers wrytten, begynyng Dominica prima Adventus Domini, etc.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. G4^v Scotland, Denmarke, and some more pure partes of the seauenteene Prouinces.

a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 94 A proclamation vnder the hands of seuenteen persons.

?1795 in J. Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland 23 There was an old woman toss'd in a blanket, Seventeen times as high as the moon.

1879 J. Morley Burke 161 A Lyons silk weaver, working..for over seventeen hours a day.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 39 Dick Duff..has scored 17 goals for Montreal Canadiens this season.

2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! xviii. 242 I left home to drive the seventeen twisty miles to the Pavilion Gardens.

†2. As an ordinal number: next in order after the sixteenth; seventeenth. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > seventeen > seventeenth

seventeen1391

1391 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 43 The sevyntene day of Februar.

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 116 (MED) The syxtene is of chastyte þat longyth to a kynge or a prince; The seuyntene of þe solas a kyng schuld haue be hym-self in priuyte.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. sig. G As the seuentene conclusion doth teache.

1580 J. Hay Certaine Demandes conc. Christian Relig. & Discipline 98 As hie declaris in ye sewinttein buik of the citie of God.

1827 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 30 June The trial..to commence on the Tuesday succeeding the third Monday of July next, being the seventeen day of that month.

B. n.

1. One more than sixteen as an abstract number; the figures or symbols representing this (17 in arabic numerals, xvii, XVII in roman).

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventeen

seventeenOE

OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. iii. 190 [Numbers of the Romans] xvii, septimus decimus, seofontyne.

?c1400 tr. Secreta Secret. (Sloane) (1977) 17 (MED) If seuentene, eghtene, or nyntene, þan longes it to þe Scorpion.

1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Aa2 Lyke a trycke of seuenteene in a sinkapace.

1845 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. Nov. 495 These seventeen, multiplied by the Three, and, as it were, thus put into that mystical triangle of three equal sides.

1983 D. Francis Danger xi. 157 The boat was blue, clinker built, with a number seventeen in white on its bow and stern.

2006 J. Patterson Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever (2007) cxxxv. 388 This was, like, a seventeen on a diabolical scale of one to ten.

2. Seventeen people or things identified contextually, as parts or divisions of a whole, members of a group, shillings, etc.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventeen > seventeen things, persons, etc.

seventeeneOE

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. li. 268 Wiþ lungen wunde, þæs blacan ifiges croppena & corna ærest þreo on dæg v on morgene seofan þy þriddan dæge þonne nigon, þonne xi,..þonne seofontyne, þonne nigantyne, þonne xxi, sele swa æfter dagum drincan on wine.

OE Menologium 25 Se wigend þa æfter seofentynum swylt [altered from swylc] þrowade nihtgerimes, nergendes þegen, Mathias mære.

c1300 St. Mary of Egypt (Laud) l. 107 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 264 Ȝeot heo leouede twenti ȝer after þe seuentene bi-fore Þat heo ne et no mannische mete bote weodes and wilde more.

c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Cambr. Dd.4.24) (1902) l. 4644 The were nede of hennes, as I wene Ȝa, moo than seuen tymes seuentene.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 645 Scho set hym in so hard assay, That he with sevintene in a bat Wes fayne for to hald hame his gat!

?1718 R. Samber tr. P.-D. Huet Mem. Dutch Trade xiv. 174 Every One of these Chambers nominates a certain Number of Directors which are deputed to compose the Assembly..called the Seventeen.

1767 H. Walpole in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 190 The lottery tickets which I have bought for you at twelve pounds seventeen and sixpence apiece.

1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 525 The hen will sit seventeen of her own eggs.

a1890 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. iv. 76 In all Germany the number of professors who then contended for the truth of the Gospel..was thought to be seventeen.

1941 D. Tilden Lynch Wild Seventies xxxiii. 289 One cellar-dwelling family of seven had ten lodgers, a total of seventeen in one long room.

2013 New Yorker 21 Jan. 52/3 Walsh is a leader of what Australian newspapers describe as the world's biggest gambling syndicate, a group of seventeen known as the Bank Roll.

3. The seventeenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventeen. Usually as number seventeen, or with specification, as chapter seventeen, verse seventeen, etc.

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1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) xvii. cxvi. f. cclxxvii/2 Palma is a tree of victorye, and hathe that name, as Isydore sayth lib. xvii. for ther with the victours honde is ornated.

1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. sig. Mm4 The particular salutations concerne either the Laodiceans verse 15:16: or the Colossian Preacher: who is not only saluted, but exhorted, verse 17.

1630 Wine, Beere, Ale, & Tobacco (ed. 2) sig. D^v 16. Nose your tobacco. 17. Puffe up your smoake.

1794 Act 34 George III in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1799) X. liv. 422 Six lots east-side of Sackville-street, number twelve to number seventeen, inclusive.

1849 G. W. Francis Art of Modelling Waxen Flowers 20 To Put a Downiness or Powdering upon Fruit.—One of the powders mentioned on page 17 is adapted for this purpose.

1966 G. Lyall Shooting Script xix. 150 Room 17, I think you said? And the desk knows I'm coming?

1998 B. Comfort Pair for Queen xi. 94 This lady wants to visit the patient in seventeen.

2003 J. Dawson & S. Propes 45 RPM vii. 45 His funereal ballad got as high as No. 17 on the national pop charts.

4. Seventeen years of age.See also sweet seventeen n.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age

yearOE

scorea1400

seventeena1568

threescorea1616

jubileea1640

military age1656

legal age1658

tecnogoniaa1676

sixty1717

forty1732

fifty1738

seven-year-old1762

teen1789

septuagenarianism1824

sexagenarianism1824

day-old1831

seventeen-year-old1858

centenarianism1863

roaring forties1867

twenties1874

leaving age1875

school-leaving age1881

octogenarianism1883

reading age1906

three1909

teenage1912

eleven-plus1937

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 13^v From seuentene to seuen and twentie (the most dangerous tyme of all a mans life).

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §9 That the posterity of Noah might beget children at seventeen.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 266. ⁋2 A slim young girl about Seventeen.

1878 H. S. Leigh Town Garland 29 The gushing heart of seventeen.

1906 Daily Chron. 25 Jan. 6/7 A youth of seventeen, engaged there as porter-clerk.

1994 E. Ehm She should Talk 15 I gave her a quick rundown of all the different jobs I had taken since I was 17.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Apr. e2/1 Jodi..said her son, Sam, who turned 17 this week, ‘advises me about everything’.

Compounds

C1.

(a) Combining with other numbers to form nouns and adjectives denoting multiples of seventeen, as seventeen hundred, seventeen thousand, etc.

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OE Hidage for Defence (transcript of lost MS) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 248 To xi furlangum gebyreþ lx hida & xvii hund hida.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13576 Seouentene [c1300 Otho sceouentene] þusend selere cnihten.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2105 Saudiours him to sewe seuyntene thousand.

1654 2nd Part Prisoners Remonstr. 4 The case of Francis Ewre Esq. prisoner in the Fleet, who had divers great Actions, and pre-satisfied Executions, amounting to 16 or 17 thousand pounds.

1830 Standard 6 Apr. Seventeen hundred and ninety-seven years ago.., another parliament was busily employed in carrying..a measure of ‘religious peace’.

1999 Times 16 July 33/4 Norway could rest easy with some 17 billion barrels in reserves.

(b) Forming compound numbers, usually with multiples of one hundred, as one hundred and seventeen (also one hundred seventeen: now U.S.), etc.

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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. xxxii. 151 [Æ]fter þæm þe Romeburg getimbred wæs m wintra & i hund & xvii, feng Iuuinianus to Romana onwalde.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 6487 Þe ȝer of grace a þousend & seuentene.

1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. D^v In the yeere one thousande, fiue hundred and seuenteene, was newe Spaine discouered.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 5 Here's yong M^r Rash, hee's in for a commoditie of browne paper, and olde Ginger, nine score and seuenteene pounds, of which hee made fiue Markes readie money.

1877 Michigan Rep. 35 521 The scale bill showed four hundred and ninety three thousand five hundred and seventeen feet of white pine.

1988 D. Tully Culture & Context in Sudan 140 Of one hundred seventeen men present, fifty-two performed one or more of these activities for cash.

2007 New Yorker 6 Aug. 36/3 I received three hundred and seventeen pieces of mail offering..to help ‘fatten’ my ‘love muscle’, as one of them put it.

b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventeen of the specified thing’, as in seventeen-foot, seventeen-mile, etc. Also forming adjectives with the sense ‘having seventeen ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in seventeen-branched, seventeen-sided, etc.

ΚΠ

1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained i. 16 The Doctor made the experiment on the papers of Mr. Senex's seventeen inch globe; and found the sea papers to weigh 349 grains, and the land only 124.

1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. iv. 438 Gilbert Macdoual..who held the seventeen-mark lands.

1861 H. Hagen Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer. 207 Sector 1 seventeen-branched.

1866 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 815/1 One of them was a loud-mouthed fellow, who, having elaborated some thousand or so of his seventeen-syllabled imprecations to the other, had stopped to rest.

1875 C. Pfoundes Fu-so Mimi Bukuro 30 Hokku is the five, seven and five, or seventeen syllable poem.

1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 29 June 4/5 The seventeen-foot Union Jack.

1954 K. Vonnegut Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 159 He bought whatever caught his fancy, a twenty-three-room house outside Chicago, a seventeen-room house in Miami.

1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxxvi. 870 Gauss invented the method of least squares and at nineteen he showed that the 17-sided regular polygon is constructible.

1992 News of World 15 Nov. 38/1 I worked 17-hour days, seven days a week just to keep my head above water.

2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) vii. 123 The salt producers built a seventeen-mile wall.., which prevents the flooding of 4,400 acres of salt ponds.

c. In combination with the numerals one to ninety-nine, to express a particular year or decade in the 18th century, as seventeen eighty-one, the seventeen eighties.In quot. 1794 referring to the date as calculated from the creation of the world (see A.M. adv.).

ΚΠ

1794 R. Valpy Poet. Chronol. 1 In sev'nteen fifty-sev'n, see Babel rise In tow'ring pride, to emulate the skies!

1816 Valpy's Poet. Chronol. (new ed.) 70 In seventeen fifty-six, tempestuous war Rag'd on our northern fields.

1896 E. V. Lucas Willow & Leather (1898) 32 The Hambledon Club's ground was changed..somewhere in the seventeen-eighties.

1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xxxi. 516 Your family arrived in the New World in seventeen-ought-nine. Mine came here in seventeen-ought-six.

2010 New Yorker 18 Oct. 83/3 The lectures on moral philosophy that Smith gave in the seventeen-fifties, and then turned into ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’, which he published in 1759.

C2.

seventeen-day adj. (often 17-day) (a) lasting for seventeen days; (b) recurring on the seventeenth day (now rare); (c) seventeen days old.

ΚΠ

1847 Rep. 16th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1846 i. 124 It is probable that three waves transited during the seventeen-day undulation [in barometric pressure].

1863 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 462 It [sc. relapsing fever] is also sometimes described under the various names of ‘five’ or ‘seven-day fever’, ‘seventeen-day fever’, ‘bilious remittent fever’, [etc.].

1915 C. F. W. McClure Devel. Lymphatic Syst. Fishes (Mem. Wistar Inst. Anat. & Biol. No. 4) 54 Figure 6..represents a reconstruction of a seventeen-day steelhead trout embryo.

1957 F. O'Connor Let. 2 Nov. in Habit of Being (1980) ii. 251 It is a 17-day pilgrimage with stops.

2006 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 3 Sept. (Mag.) 5/3 After a 17-day sojourn in Scotland, you will be, as they say in Auchinblae, jiggered.

seventeen-year cicada n. (also seventeen-years cicada, †seventeen-years' cicada) any of several periodical cicadas of eastern North America (genus Magicicada) whose nymphs emerge as adults in large numbers on a seventeen-year cycle; also called seventeen-year locust.Cf. thirteen-year cicada n. at thirteen adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > cicada septemdecim (seventeen-year cicada)

seventeen-year locust1817

seventeen-year cicada1830

periodical cicada1876

1830 Catal. Contents Mus. Royal Coll. Surgeons IV. i. 126 Cicada septendecim, Oliv... Seventeen-years Cicada.

1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 170 The seventeen-year Cicada,..in the winged state, is of a black colour, with transparent wings and wing-covers.

1950 Chicago Daily News 13 Jan. 42 The periodic or 17-year cicada lives the longest of any known insect.

2019 L. Moffatt tr. A. Sverdrup-Thygeson Buzz, Sting, Bite iii. 59 People can suffer hearing loss if they spend too much time out and about when the seventeen-year cicadas strike. The sound level can be as high as 100 decibels.

seventeen-year locust n. (also seventeen-years locust, †seventeen-years' locust) a periodical cicada; = seventeen-year cicada n.

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seventeen-year locust1817

seventeen-year cicada1830

periodical cicada1876

1817 Columbian Centinel (Boston, Mass.) 14 May 1/4 The southern papers have announced that the present is the year for the appearance of what is called..the Seventeen Years Locust... The insect lives above ground about two months, and 17 years in it.

1835 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania 19 Sept. 178/1 The twigs of different plants, which were punctured by the seventeen year Locust, last season, present now almost the same appearance as when the eggs were deposited in their nidus.

1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Aug. 3/1 The juice-sucking 17-year locusts—which are really cicadas—were also around.

2001 Independent 3 July 14/2 The song belongs to the Magicicada septendecim or Magicicada cassini, otherwise known as the periodical cicada or 17-year-locust.

seventeen-year-old adj. and n. (a) adj. that is seventeen years of age; (b) n. a person, animal, or thing that is seventeen years of age.

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the world > people > person > person of specific age > [adjective]

one-year-old?1609

seven-year-old1713

seventeen-year-old1821

nine-year-old1828

centenarian1854

twentyish1928

thirty-something1981

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age

seven?1440

yearing1451

year-old1556

yeared1583

seventy1590

two-year1596

quinquagenarian1603

septuagenary1605

twelvea1616

thirty1618

three-yearling1621

one-eared1645

quadragenarious1656

trimenstruous1656

septennian1662

sexagenarian1663

sexagenary1663

octogenarya1696

seven-year-old1713

quinquagenary1715

yearling1729

septuagesimal1781

septuagenarian1793

octogenarian1818

fortyish1821

seventeen-year-old1821

three-year-old1825

week-old1826

centenarian1828

day-old1831

70-year-old1832

quadragenarian1834

century-old1836

nonagenarian1877

teenaged1913

thirtyish1925

the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun]

one-year-old?1609

cinquanter1611

sexagenariana1646

septuagene1657

quintagenarian1687

threescore1721

septuagenarian1744

centenarian1747

seven-year-old1762

septuagenary1792

centenary1800

nonagenarian1804

sexagenary1814

octogenarian1815

nine-year-old1828

octogenary1828

semi-centenarian1828

quinquagenarian1830

quadragenarian1839

seventeen-year-old1858

70-year-old1870

twenty-firster1912

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age

yearOE

scorea1400

seventeena1568

threescorea1616

jubileea1640

military age1656

legal age1658

tecnogoniaa1676

sixty1717

forty1732

fifty1738

seven-year-old1762

teen1789

septuagenarianism1824

sexagenarianism1824

day-old1831

seventeen-year-old1858

centenarianism1863

roaring forties1867

twenties1874

leaving age1875

school-leaving age1881

octogenarianism1883

reading age1906

three1909

teenage1912

eleven-plus1937

1821 London Mag. Oct. 401/2 O! thou beardless trickster, thou seventeen year old scant-o'-grace.

1858 Norfolk News 30 Jan. 4/6 The seventeen-year-old must be told that princesses are exceptional, and that royal marriages are differently managed from those of other people.

1937 Life 24 May 90/3 The Van Winkle mint julep formula is to use only 17-year-old stock—either ‘Old Fitzgerald’ or ‘Old Mammoth Cave’.

2018 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Sept. a17 Seventeen-year-olds are often tried, convicted, sentenced and jailed as adults in many states.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	seventeen
释义	seventeenadj.n. Brit. /ˌsɛvnˈtiːn/, /ˈsɛvntiːn/, U.S. /ˌsɛvənˈtin/, /ˈsɛvənˌtin/ Forms: α. early Old English seofontiene- (in compounds), Old English seofantyne, Old English seofentyne, Old English–early Middle English seofontene, Old English–early Middle English seofontyne, late Old English–1600s seuentene, early Middle English sceouentene (south-western), early Middle English seouentene (south-west midlands), early Middle English souentene (south-western), early Middle English souentine (south-western), Middle English cevyntene, Middle English seuenetene, Middle English seuenten, Middle English seventen, Middle English–1500s seuyntene, Middle English–1600s seuenteen, Middle English–1600s seventene, Middle English– seventeen, 1500s–1600s seauenteen, 1500s–1600s seauenteene, 1500s–1600s seuenteene, 1500s–1600s seventeene, 1600s seaventeen, 1600s seaventeene, 1800s siventeen (Irish English), 1900s seb'nteen (U.S. regional (in African-American usage)); Scottish pre-1700 sawintene, pre-1700 seaveintine, pre-1700 seaventene, pre-1700 seaventine, pre-1700 seavintein, pre-1700 seavinteine, pre-1700 seavintin, pre-1700 seawinteine, pre-1700 seventein, pre-1700 seventene, pre-1700 sevetein, pre-1700 sevintein, pre-1700 sevinten, pre-1700 sevintene, pre-1700 sevinttene, pre-1700 sevynten, pre-1700 sevyntene, pre-1700 seweintein, pre-1700 sewintein, pre-1700 sewinteine, pre-1700 sewinten, pre-1700 sewintene, pre-1700 sewinteyne, pre-1700 sewinttein, pre-1700 sewnteine, pre-1700 sewnten, pre-1700 sewyntein, pre-1700 sewynten, pre-1700 sewyntene, pre-1700 seyntene, pre-1700 1700s– seventeen, 1800s seeventeen, 1900s seaventeen, 1900s– seiventeen, 1900s– seivinteen, 1900s– siventeen. β. Scottish pre-1700 senten, 1700s synteen, 1700s–1800s seenteen, 1800s sinteen, 1800s syneteen. Also represented by the numerical symbols 17, xvii, XVII. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sawentēne , sowentēne , sauwentēne , sauntēne , santēne , also siguntēne , siuguntēne , sogentēne (West Frisian santjin , santsijn ), Middle Dutch seventien , soventien , seventhien , zeventien (Dutch zeventien ), Old Saxon sivuntehan (Middle Low German seventein ), Old High German sipenzehen (Middle High German sibenzehen , German siebzehn ), Old Icelandic sjautján (Icelandic sautján , seytján ), Norwegian syttan , Swedish sjutton , Old Danish sjuten (Danish sytten ) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of ten adj. (compare -teen comb. form).Note on Old English. As with other cardinal numerals, Old English often shows use with genitive plural of the noun (compare quot. OE at sense A. 1). This is originally use as noun, but the construction merges with attributive use as adjective in Middle English. Note on forms. For discussion of form types, see seven adj. For the development of the second element in English see discussion at -teen comb. form. A cardinal numeral represented by 17 in arabic numerals or by xvii, XVII in roman. A. adj. 1. One more than sixteen.On the construction in quot. OE see etymological note. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > seventeen seventeeneOE septendecimal1886 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xviii. 240 Wæs he Wulfhere Mercna cyning seofontyne winter. OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) vi. 88 On Engla lande hæfð se lengsta dæg seofontyne tida. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8895 A kniȝt of dede vertuous Þat on hir ȝat kniȝtes seuentene. 1455 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1890–1 (1891) 15 147 (MED) Item, seventeen quayers wrytten, begynyng Dominica prima Adventus Domini, etc. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. G4^v Scotland, Denmarke, and some more pure partes of the seauenteene Prouinces. a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 94 A proclamation vnder the hands of seuenteen persons. ?1795 in J. Ritson Gammer Gurton's Garland 23 There was an old woman toss'd in a blanket, Seventeen times as high as the moon. 1879 J. Morley Burke 161 A Lyons silk weaver, working..for over seventeen hours a day. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 39 Dick Duff..has scored 17 goals for Montreal Canadiens this season. 2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! xviii. 242 I left home to drive the seventeen twisty miles to the Pavilion Gardens. †2. As an ordinal number: next in order after the sixteenth; seventeenth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > seventeen > seventeenth seventeen1391 1391 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 43 The sevyntene day of Februar. c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 116 (MED) The syxtene is of chastyte þat longyth to a kynge or a prince; The seuyntene of þe solas a kyng schuld haue be hym-self in priuyte. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. sig. G As the seuentene conclusion doth teache. 1580 J. Hay Certaine Demandes conc. Christian Relig. & Discipline 98 As hie declaris in ye sewinttein buik of the citie of God. 1827 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 30 June The trial..to commence on the Tuesday succeeding the third Monday of July next, being the seventeen day of that month. B. n. 1. One more than sixteen as an abstract number; the figures or symbols representing this (17 in arabic numerals, xvii, XVII in roman). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventeen seventeenOE OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. iii. 190 [Numbers of the Romans] xvii, septimus decimus, seofontyne. ?c1400 tr. Secreta Secret. (Sloane) (1977) 17 (MED) If seuentene, eghtene, or nyntene, þan longes it to þe Scorpion. 1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Aa2 Lyke a trycke of seuenteene in a sinkapace. 1845 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. Nov. 495 These seventeen, multiplied by the Three, and, as it were, thus put into that mystical triangle of three equal sides. 1983 D. Francis Danger xi. 157 The boat was blue, clinker built, with a number seventeen in white on its bow and stern. 2006 J. Patterson Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever (2007) cxxxv. 388 This was, like, a seventeen on a diabolical scale of one to ten. 2. Seventeen people or things identified contextually, as parts or divisions of a whole, members of a group, shillings, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventeen > seventeen things, persons, etc. seventeeneOE eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. li. 268 Wiþ lungen wunde, þæs blacan ifiges croppena & corna ærest þreo on dæg v on morgene seofan þy þriddan dæge þonne nigon, þonne xi,..þonne seofontyne, þonne nigantyne, þonne xxi, sele swa æfter dagum drincan on wine. OE Menologium 25 Se wigend þa æfter seofentynum swylt [altered from swylc] þrowade nihtgerimes, nergendes þegen, Mathias mære. c1300 St. Mary of Egypt (Laud) l. 107 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 264 Ȝeot heo leouede twenti ȝer after þe seuentene bi-fore Þat heo ne et no mannische mete bote weodes and wilde more. c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Cambr. Dd.4.24) (1902) l. 4644 The were nede of hennes, as I wene Ȝa, moo than seuen tymes seuentene. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 645 Scho set hym in so hard assay, That he with sevintene in a bat Wes fayne for to hald hame his gat! ?1718 R. Samber tr. P.-D. Huet Mem. Dutch Trade xiv. 174 Every One of these Chambers nominates a certain Number of Directors which are deputed to compose the Assembly..called the Seventeen. 1767 H. Walpole in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 190 The lottery tickets which I have bought for you at twelve pounds seventeen and sixpence apiece. 1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 525 The hen will sit seventeen of her own eggs. a1890 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. iv. 76 In all Germany the number of professors who then contended for the truth of the Gospel..was thought to be seventeen. 1941 D. Tilden Lynch Wild Seventies xxxiii. 289 One cellar-dwelling family of seven had ten lodgers, a total of seventeen in one long room. 2013 New Yorker 21 Jan. 52/3 Walsh is a leader of what Australian newspapers describe as the world's biggest gambling syndicate, a group of seventeen known as the Bank Roll. 3. The seventeenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventeen. Usually as number seventeen, or with specification, as chapter seventeen, verse seventeen, etc. ΚΠ 1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) xvii. cxvi. f. cclxxvii/2 Palma is a tree of victorye, and hathe that name, as Isydore sayth lib. xvii. for ther with the victours honde is ornated. 1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. sig. Mm4 The particular salutations concerne either the Laodiceans verse 15:16: or the Colossian Preacher: who is not only saluted, but exhorted, verse 17. 1630 Wine, Beere, Ale, & Tobacco (ed. 2) sig. D^v 16. Nose your tobacco. 17. Puffe up your smoake. 1794 Act 34 George III in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1799) X. liv. 422 Six lots east-side of Sackville-street, number twelve to number seventeen, inclusive. 1849 G. W. Francis Art of Modelling Waxen Flowers 20 To Put a Downiness or Powdering upon Fruit.—One of the powders mentioned on page 17 is adapted for this purpose. 1966 G. Lyall Shooting Script xix. 150 Room 17, I think you said? And the desk knows I'm coming? 1998 B. Comfort Pair for Queen xi. 94 This lady wants to visit the patient in seventeen. 2003 J. Dawson & S. Propes 45 RPM vii. 45 His funereal ballad got as high as No. 17 on the national pop charts. 4. Seventeen years of age.See also sweet seventeen n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age yearOE scorea1400 seventeena1568 threescorea1616 jubileea1640 military age1656 legal age1658 tecnogoniaa1676 sixty1717 forty1732 fifty1738 seven-year-old1762 teen1789 septuagenarianism1824 sexagenarianism1824 day-old1831 seventeen-year-old1858 centenarianism1863 roaring forties1867 twenties1874 leaving age1875 school-leaving age1881 octogenarianism1883 reading age1906 three1909 teenage1912 eleven-plus1937 a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 13^v From seuentene to seuen and twentie (the most dangerous tyme of all a mans life). 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §9 That the posterity of Noah might beget children at seventeen. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 266. ⁋2 A slim young girl about Seventeen. 1878 H. S. Leigh Town Garland 29 The gushing heart of seventeen. 1906 Daily Chron. 25 Jan. 6/7 A youth of seventeen, engaged there as porter-clerk. 1994 E. Ehm She should Talk 15 I gave her a quick rundown of all the different jobs I had taken since I was 17. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Apr. e2/1 Jodi..said her son, Sam, who turned 17 this week, ‘advises me about everything’. Compounds C1. a. (a) Combining with other numbers to form nouns and adjectives denoting multiples of seventeen, as seventeen hundred, seventeen thousand, etc. ΚΠ OE Hidage for Defence (transcript of lost MS) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 248 To xi furlangum gebyreþ lx hida & xvii hund hida. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13576 Seouentene [c1300 Otho sceouentene] þusend selere cnihten. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2105 Saudiours him to sewe seuyntene thousand. 1654 2nd Part Prisoners Remonstr. 4 The case of Francis Ewre Esq. prisoner in the Fleet, who had divers great Actions, and pre-satisfied Executions, amounting to 16 or 17 thousand pounds. 1830 Standard 6 Apr. Seventeen hundred and ninety-seven years ago.., another parliament was busily employed in carrying..a measure of ‘religious peace’. 1999 Times 16 July 33/4 Norway could rest easy with some 17 billion barrels in reserves. (b) Forming compound numbers, usually with multiples of one hundred, as one hundred and seventeen (also one hundred seventeen: now U.S.), etc. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. xxxii. 151 [Æ]fter þæm þe Romeburg getimbred wæs m wintra & i hund & xvii, feng Iuuinianus to Romana onwalde. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 6487 Þe ȝer of grace a þousend & seuentene. 1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. D^v In the yeere one thousande, fiue hundred and seuenteene, was newe Spaine discouered. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 5 Here's yong M^r Rash, hee's in for a commoditie of browne paper, and olde Ginger, nine score and seuenteene pounds, of which hee made fiue Markes readie money. 1877 Michigan Rep. 35 521 The scale bill showed four hundred and ninety three thousand five hundred and seventeen feet of white pine. 1988 D. Tully Culture & Context in Sudan 140 Of one hundred seventeen men present, fifty-two performed one or more of these activities for cash. 2007 New Yorker 6 Aug. 36/3 I received three hundred and seventeen pieces of mail offering..to help ‘fatten’ my ‘love muscle’, as one of them put it. b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventeen of the specified thing’, as in seventeen-foot, seventeen-mile, etc. Also forming adjectives with the sense ‘having seventeen ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in seventeen-branched, seventeen-sided, etc. ΚΠ 1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained i. 16 The Doctor made the experiment on the papers of Mr. Senex's seventeen inch globe; and found the sea papers to weigh 349 grains, and the land only 124. 1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. iv. 438 Gilbert Macdoual..who held the seventeen-mark lands. 1861 H. Hagen Synopsis Neuroptera N. Amer. 207 Sector 1 seventeen-branched. 1866 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 815/1 One of them was a loud-mouthed fellow, who, having elaborated some thousand or so of his seventeen-syllabled imprecations to the other, had stopped to rest. 1875 C. Pfoundes Fu-so Mimi Bukuro 30 Hokku is the five, seven and five, or seventeen syllable poem. 1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 29 June 4/5 The seventeen-foot Union Jack. 1954 K. Vonnegut Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 159 He bought whatever caught his fancy, a twenty-three-room house outside Chicago, a seventeen-room house in Miami. 1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxxvi. 870 Gauss invented the method of least squares and at nineteen he showed that the 17-sided regular polygon is constructible. 1992 News of World 15 Nov. 38/1 I worked 17-hour days, seven days a week just to keep my head above water. 2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) vii. 123 The salt producers built a seventeen-mile wall.., which prevents the flooding of 4,400 acres of salt ponds. c. In combination with the numerals one to ninety-nine, to express a particular year or decade in the 18th century, as seventeen eighty-one, the seventeen eighties.In quot. 1794 referring to the date as calculated from the creation of the world (see A.M. adv.). ΚΠ 1794 R. Valpy Poet. Chronol. 1 In sev'nteen fifty-sev'n, see Babel rise In tow'ring pride, to emulate the skies! 1816 Valpy's Poet. Chronol. (new ed.) 70 In seventeen fifty-six, tempestuous war Rag'd on our northern fields. 1896 E. V. Lucas Willow & Leather (1898) 32 The Hambledon Club's ground was changed..somewhere in the seventeen-eighties. 1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xxxi. 516 Your family arrived in the New World in seventeen-ought-nine. Mine came here in seventeen-ought-six. 2010 New Yorker 18 Oct. 83/3 The lectures on moral philosophy that Smith gave in the seventeen-fifties, and then turned into ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’, which he published in 1759. C2. seventeen-day adj. (often 17-day) (a) lasting for seventeen days; (b) recurring on the seventeenth day (now rare); (c) seventeen days old. ΚΠ 1847 Rep. 16th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1846 i. 124 It is probable that three waves transited during the seventeen-day undulation [in barometric pressure]. 1863 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 462 It [sc. relapsing fever] is also sometimes described under the various names of ‘five’ or ‘seven-day fever’, ‘seventeen-day fever’, ‘bilious remittent fever’, [etc.]. 1915 C. F. W. McClure Devel. Lymphatic Syst. Fishes (Mem. Wistar Inst. Anat. & Biol. No. 4) 54 Figure 6..represents a reconstruction of a seventeen-day steelhead trout embryo. 1957 F. O'Connor Let. 2 Nov. in Habit of Being (1980) ii. 251 It is a 17-day pilgrimage with stops. 2006 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 3 Sept. (Mag.) 5/3 After a 17-day sojourn in Scotland, you will be, as they say in Auchinblae, jiggered. seventeen-year cicada n. (also seventeen-years cicada, †seventeen-years' cicada) any of several periodical cicadas of eastern North America (genus Magicicada) whose nymphs emerge as adults in large numbers on a seventeen-year cycle; also called seventeen-year locust.Cf. thirteen-year cicada n. at thirteen adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > cicada septemdecim (seventeen-year cicada) seventeen-year locust1817 seventeen-year cicada1830 periodical cicada1876 1830 Catal. Contents Mus. Royal Coll. Surgeons IV. i. 126 Cicada septendecim, Oliv... Seventeen-years Cicada. 1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 170 The seventeen-year Cicada,..in the winged state, is of a black colour, with transparent wings and wing-covers. 1950 Chicago Daily News 13 Jan. 42 The periodic or 17-year cicada lives the longest of any known insect. 2019 L. Moffatt tr. A. Sverdrup-Thygeson Buzz, Sting, Bite iii. 59 People can suffer hearing loss if they spend too much time out and about when the seventeen-year cicadas strike. The sound level can be as high as 100 decibels. seventeen-year locust n. (also seventeen-years locust, †seventeen-years' locust) a periodical cicada; = seventeen-year cicada n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > cicada septemdecim (seventeen-year cicada) seventeen-year locust1817 seventeen-year cicada1830 periodical cicada1876 1817 Columbian Centinel (Boston, Mass.) 14 May 1/4 The southern papers have announced that the present is the year for the appearance of what is called..the Seventeen Years Locust... The insect lives above ground about two months, and 17 years in it. 1835 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania 19 Sept. 178/1 The twigs of different plants, which were punctured by the seventeen year Locust, last season, present now almost the same appearance as when the eggs were deposited in their nidus. 1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Aug. 3/1 The juice-sucking 17-year locusts—which are really cicadas—were also around. 2001 Independent 3 July 14/2 The song belongs to the Magicicada septendecim or Magicicada cassini, otherwise known as the periodical cicada or 17-year-locust. seventeen-year-old adj. and n. (a) adj. that is seventeen years of age; (b) n. a person, animal, or thing that is seventeen years of age. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of specific age > [adjective] one-year-old?1609 seven-year-old1713 seventeen-year-old1821 nine-year-old1828 centenarian1854 twentyish1928 thirty-something1981 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] one-year-old?1609 cinquanter1611 sexagenariana1646 septuagene1657 quintagenarian1687 threescore1721 septuagenarian1744 centenarian1747 seven-year-old1762 septuagenary1792 centenary1800 nonagenarian1804 sexagenary1814 octogenarian1815 nine-year-old1828 octogenary1828 semi-centenarian1828 quinquagenarian1830 quadragenarian1839 seventeen-year-old1858 70-year-old1870 twenty-firster1912 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age yearOE scorea1400 seventeena1568 threescorea1616 jubileea1640 military age1656 legal age1658 tecnogoniaa1676 sixty1717 forty1732 fifty1738 seven-year-old1762 teen1789 septuagenarianism1824 sexagenarianism1824 day-old1831 seventeen-year-old1858 centenarianism1863 roaring forties1867 twenties1874 leaving age1875 school-leaving age1881 octogenarianism1883 reading age1906 three1909 teenage1912 eleven-plus1937 1821 London Mag. Oct. 401/2 O! thou beardless trickster, thou seventeen year old scant-o'-grace. 1858 Norfolk News 30 Jan. 4/6 The seventeen-year-old must be told that princesses are exceptional, and that royal marriages are differently managed from those of other people. 1937 Life 24 May 90/3 The Van Winkle mint julep formula is to use only 17-year-old stock—either ‘Old Fitzgerald’ or ‘Old Mammoth Cave’. 2018 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Sept. a17 Seventeen-year-olds are often tried, convicted, sentenced and jailed as adults in many states. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.eOE
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