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seventeen

/sev-uhn-teen/US // ˈsɛv ənˈtin //UK // (ˈsɛvənˈtiːn) //

十七,十七岁,十七日,第十七

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 10 plus 7.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 17 or XVII.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 17 in number.
    • : a novel by Booth Tarkington.

Examples

  • Seventeen-year-old Edgar Gonzalez formed one half of the group Doble Filo.

  • Seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne jumps into a half-frozen river to save his dog, Talia, and the 24-hour drama begins.

  • Seventeen-year-old high school senior Julia Khoroshilov spent the past two weeks working for runway casting director Zan Casting.

  • Thousand bucks a movie, seventeen informative minutes in length.

  • In 1973, he was convicted on seventeen counts and sentenced to three years in federal prison.

  • These words were uttered in a guarded whisper by a boy about seventeen years of age, to a great dog that stood by his side.

  • There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.

  • "He 's getting well," thought Black Sheep, who knew the song through all its seventeen verses.

  • The duty was seventeen millions and a half pounds raised one foot high for each bushel of coals.

  • That first report enumerates twelve pumping-engines, probably all of them Watt engines, averaging a duty of seventeen millions.