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单词 seventeen
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Definition of seventeen in English:

seventeen

cardinal number sɛv(ə)nˈtiːnˈsɛv(ə)ntiːn
  • 1One more than sixteen, or seven more than ten; 17.

    seventeen years later
    a list of names, seventeen in all
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I have dropped a lot of names in my seventeen days of blogging - movie stars, artists, political figures.
    • You are seventeen years old and a senior in high school.
    • We had these two youngsters, between sixteen and seventeen years of age, who had only been with us for two weeks when, all of a sudden, we had to do this attack.
    • And if Mum and Dad did what I asked them to, I'm guessing that you'd be about sixteen or seventeen years old by now.
    • All she knew of her roommate was that his name was Lawrence Anders and was seventeen years old.
    • Out of the seventeen people in your household sixteen will survive, but you cannot escape your fate.
    • The heir son was about seventeen years old, and the middle brother was about sixteen.
    • Acting as first minister, the cardinal directed the affairs of France for the next seventeen years.
    • Most looked like twenty-year-olds and others were maybe sixteen or seventeen years old.
    • At 22 February there were one hundred and fifteen adults in the Workhouse and one hundred and seventeen children
    • There are seventeen tracks on the UK album version.
    • They each gave a name and number, going in order from one to seventeen.
    • Exactly seventeen years later, I find myself in a head to head confrontation with the army, while the public at large is jeering and mocking me from the sidelines.
    • It was bounded by two rivers from seventeen to thirty metres wide, and navigable for boats three to five kilometres.
    • Take an extra buck or two out of the fund you set aside to buy seventeen Support Our Troops magnets to stick all over your car to show how patriotic you are.
    • Today I have received ten forms so far, eleven yesterday, sixteen before that, and seventeen the day before that!
    • Over half of the seats are filled, with students of about sixteen or seventeen years old.
    • Hannu beat out Rick Schramm with seventeen points on the back nine to Rick's sixteen.
    • Sixteen of the hottest seventeen years on record have happened since 1980.
    • Girls fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen years of age, mere children, are out on the street when they should be in school.
    1. 1.1 Seventeen years old.
      he joined the Marines at seventeen
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I met a young pregnant girl, around the age of seventeen.
      • He was tall and lanky, with angry dark eyes, and looked about sixteen or seventeen at the most.
      • The young woman looked around sixteen or seventeen with light brown curls and green eyes.
      • I looked up from my book and saw this guy who looked like he was around sixteen or seventeen.
      • I'm sixteen years old, but I'll be seventeen in a little more than a month.
      • The girl looked only about sixteen or seventeen, and she did not look healthy at all.
      • But in the beginning of their senior year, at the age of seventeen, no one expects a relationship to last forever.
      • The California girls, sixteen and seventeen, were old enough to be dating.
      • They had all been drinking even though the majority of them were sixteen and seventeen.
      • My favourite was Tilly Mathewson who worked part-time when I was sixteen or seventeen.
      • I first encountered Patti Smith's music in 1985, at the age of seventeen.
      • When they met, Monet was seventeen and Boudin thirty-three.
      • He was about sixteen or seventeen when he first became known.
      • Oh, and did I mention the fact that Vic Fraser was seventeen and I was sixteen?
      • I ask why the memoir stops at the age of seventeen.
      • Returning to Britain from Lagos at the age of seventeen, he started art school as a painter.
      • There aren't many things you can do when you're sixteen going on seventeen.
      • He looked about sixteen or seventeen, and his black hair was spiked up.
      • He looked to be sixteen or seventeen and he was kind of small.
      • A severe early trauma was when, in 1963 at the age of seventeen, he lost his mother.
    2. 1.2 A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by seventeen.
    3. 1.3 A set or team of seventeen individuals.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean
 
 

Definition of seventeen in US English:

seventeen

cardinal number
  • 1One more than sixteen, or seven more than ten; 17.

    seventeen years later
    a list of names, seventeen in all
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Take an extra buck or two out of the fund you set aside to buy seventeen Support Our Troops magnets to stick all over your car to show how patriotic you are.
    • Over half of the seats are filled, with students of about sixteen or seventeen years old.
    • They each gave a name and number, going in order from one to seventeen.
    • Sixteen of the hottest seventeen years on record have happened since 1980.
    • You are seventeen years old and a senior in high school.
    • And if Mum and Dad did what I asked them to, I'm guessing that you'd be about sixteen or seventeen years old by now.
    • Today I have received ten forms so far, eleven yesterday, sixteen before that, and seventeen the day before that!
    • Exactly seventeen years later, I find myself in a head to head confrontation with the army, while the public at large is jeering and mocking me from the sidelines.
    • Acting as first minister, the cardinal directed the affairs of France for the next seventeen years.
    • I have dropped a lot of names in my seventeen days of blogging - movie stars, artists, political figures.
    • It was bounded by two rivers from seventeen to thirty metres wide, and navigable for boats three to five kilometres.
    • We had these two youngsters, between sixteen and seventeen years of age, who had only been with us for two weeks when, all of a sudden, we had to do this attack.
    • All she knew of her roommate was that his name was Lawrence Anders and was seventeen years old.
    • Hannu beat out Rick Schramm with seventeen points on the back nine to Rick's sixteen.
    • At 22 February there were one hundred and fifteen adults in the Workhouse and one hundred and seventeen children
    • Out of the seventeen people in your household sixteen will survive, but you cannot escape your fate.
    • The heir son was about seventeen years old, and the middle brother was about sixteen.
    • Most looked like twenty-year-olds and others were maybe sixteen or seventeen years old.
    • Girls fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen years of age, mere children, are out on the street when they should be in school.
    • There are seventeen tracks on the UK album version.
    1. 1.1 Seventeen years old.
      he joined the Marines at seventeen
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The California girls, sixteen and seventeen, were old enough to be dating.
      • I ask why the memoir stops at the age of seventeen.
      • The young woman looked around sixteen or seventeen with light brown curls and green eyes.
      • Returning to Britain from Lagos at the age of seventeen, he started art school as a painter.
      • He looked about sixteen or seventeen, and his black hair was spiked up.
      • He was tall and lanky, with angry dark eyes, and looked about sixteen or seventeen at the most.
      • I'm sixteen years old, but I'll be seventeen in a little more than a month.
      • When they met, Monet was seventeen and Boudin thirty-three.
      • I looked up from my book and saw this guy who looked like he was around sixteen or seventeen.
      • I first encountered Patti Smith's music in 1985, at the age of seventeen.
      • The girl looked only about sixteen or seventeen, and she did not look healthy at all.
      • He looked to be sixteen or seventeen and he was kind of small.
      • There aren't many things you can do when you're sixteen going on seventeen.
      • They had all been drinking even though the majority of them were sixteen and seventeen.
      • A severe early trauma was when, in 1963 at the age of seventeen, he lost his mother.
      • Oh, and did I mention the fact that Vic Fraser was seventeen and I was sixteen?
      • He was about sixteen or seventeen when he first became known.
      • I met a young pregnant girl, around the age of seventeen.
      • But in the beginning of their senior year, at the age of seventeen, no one expects a relationship to last forever.
      • My favourite was Tilly Mathewson who worked part-time when I was sixteen or seventeen.
    2. 1.2 A set or team of seventeen individuals.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.

 
 
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