# seventeen

Pronunciation: say "SEV-uhn-teen" /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/

## Numeral

1. The cardinal number that comes after sixteen and before eighteen, written 17 in Arabic numerals and XVII in Roman numerals.
   - Simple: The number that comes after sixteen and before eighteen, written as 17.
   - _The committee received seventeen applications before the deadline closed._
   - _He finished the cycling stage in just under seventeen minutes._

## 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".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/seventeen (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).