seventeen
/ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/ numeral A1- The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
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My daughter is only seventeen years old, and your son twenty-one.
On the table lay two banknotes for ten pounds each and seventeen pounds ten in silver and gold, the money arranged in little piles of varying amount.
I shall wait until I’m seventeen.”
What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?”
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