seventeen
/sɛv(ə)nˈtiːn
/ /ˈsɛv(ə)ntiːn /cardinal number
1One more than sixteen, or seven more than ten; 17: seventeen years later a list of names, seventeen in all (Roman numeral xvii or XVII) Over half of the seats are filled, with students of about sixteen or seventeen years old....
- Most looked like twenty-year-olds and others were maybe sixteen or seventeen years old.
- Sixteen of the hottest seventeen years on record have happened since 1980.
1.1Seventeen years old: he joined the Marines at seventeen...
- I ask why the memoir stops at the age of seventeen.
- I first encountered Patti Smith's music in 1985, at the age of seventeen.
- Returning to Britain from Lagos at the age of seventeen, he started art school as a painter.
1.2A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by seventeen.
1.3A set or team of seventeen individuals.Forty teams representing ten schools competed in this year's semi-finals with the top seventeen qualifying for the final.
Origin
Old English seofontīene, from the Germanic base of seven.