seventeen has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being one more than sixteen

Synonyms

17 xvii

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

The casual seduction of a seventeen year old bluestocking seemed tame by comparison .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath , you abstracted seventeen ivory , metal , wood , and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin , two snuffboxes , and a jade handled magnifying_glass .

Related terms

cardinal

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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one

Synonyms

17 XVII

Related terms

large_integer

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