SEVENTEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventeen mean? 

• SEVENTEEN (noun)
  The noun SEVENTEEN has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one

  Familiarity information: SEVENTEEN used as a noun is very rare.

• SEVENTEEN (adjective)
  The adjective SEVENTEEN has 1 sense:

1. being one more than sixteen

  Familiarity information: SEVENTEEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

17; seventeen; XVII

Hypernyms ("seventeen" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

Derivation:

seventeen (being one more than sixteen)

• SEVENTEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than sixteen

Synonyms:

17; seventeen; xvii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

Derivation:

seventeen (the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one)

 Context examples 

Remember, my love, that you are not seventeen.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Nearer my sister Jo's; I am seventeen in August," returned Meg, tossing her head.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Seventeen from the right and second from the left. This is the cave sure enough.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Why, she can't be above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Say I am seventeen, and say that seventeen is young for the eldest Miss Larkins, what of that?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I should fight at thirteen-eight, and ’ere I am nearly seventeen.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I tell you, coz, that no man can come within seventeen feet of me without catching a spark.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was seventeen and just back from sea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They never once thought of her heart, which, for the parents of a young lady of seventeen, just returned from her first excursion from home, was odd enough!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)