seventeen

• (Arabic numerals): 17
• (Roman numerals): XVII
• (Exmoor dialect): zewnteen

From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten. Equivalent to seven +‎ -teen

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛv.ənˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

seventeen

1. The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
   • 1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

     [T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd.

• Ordinal: seventeenth

• Last: sixteen. Next: eighteen

seventeen

1. Alternative form of seventene