seventeen

/'sevn'ti:n/

Thân thiện

A child counts seventeen colorful marbles on the floor.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Being one more than sixteen: "Seventeen" describes the quantity that follows sixteen in the natural number sequence. It is represented by the numeral 17.

2. Noun:

   • The cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one: "Seventeen" is the name for the number 17. It can represent a count, an age, or an identifier.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • She has seventeen books on the shelf. (The quantity of books is 17.)
  • The recipe requires seventeen grams of sugar. (It specifies the exact amount.)

• Noun:

  • Seventeen is a prime number. (The number 17 itself is the subject.)
  • He celebrated his seventeenth birthday. (Here, "seventeenth" is the ordinal form derived from the cardinal number "seventeen".)

Advanced Usage

• "Sweet seventeen": A common cultural phrase referring to the age of seventeen, often romanticized as a youthful, coming-of-age year.
  • She was looking forward to her sweet seventeen party.

Variants and Related Words

• Seventeenth (adj, n): The ordinal form, meaning "constituting number seventeen in a sequence."
  • This is the seventeenth edition of the book.
• Seventeenfold (adv, adj): By a factor of seventeen; seventeen times as much.
  • The investment saw a seventeenfold increase.

Synonyms

• 17: The numeral representing the same quantity.
• XVII: The Roman numeral equivalent.

Related Phrases

• At seventeen: Used to specify an event or state occurring at that age.
  • She learned to drive at seventeen.
• Group of seventeen: A phrase indicating a set or collection of seventeen items or people.
  • A group of seventeen students went on the field trip.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being one more than sixteen

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 17
• xvii
• XVII