seventeen
SEV-uhn-teen/ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/
- 1The cardinal number that comes after sixteen and before eighteen, written 17 in Arabic numerals and XVII in Roman numerals.
The committee received seventeen applications before the deadline closed.
He finished the cycling stage in just under seventeen minutes.
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Origin
Seventeen comes from Middle English "seventene", from Old English "seofontīene", from Proto-Germanic "*sebuntehun". It is essentially "seven" plus "-teen", and is related to Dutch "zeventien", German "siebzehn", and Danish "sytten".