seventeen
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[ adjective ] being one more than sixteen
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 |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
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