seventeen

Meanings

• Number

  The number that is one more than sixteen.

  - "Seventeen is a prime number."
  - "In baseball, a batter needs to get seventeen hits to have a .400 batting average in a season."
  - "There are seventeen syllables in the longest word in the English language: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis."

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Pronunciation

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with seventeen
seventeen , sixteen , teen , between , eleven , heaven , twelve , grieve , cleave , leave , believe , achieve

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Variants

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17 , seventeen , seventeens , seventeenth , seventeenths , seventeen-year locust , seventeen-year locusts

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Etymology

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The word seventeen is derived from the Old English seventeen, which is a combination of seventeen and -en, meaning 'group of'.

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Trivia

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1. Seventeen is the atomic number of chlorine.

2. In the movie 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring', Frodo and Sam cross seventeen bridges of the Marshes of Emyn Muil.

3. The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet is Q.

4. In the Harry Potter series, seventeen is the age at which students can start driving the broomsticks.

5. The seventeenth president of the United States was Andrew Johnson.

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Related Concepts

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1. teen number: A number between eleven and nineteen.

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Culture

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Seventeen is considered a significant number in various cultures and religions. In Christianity, the number seventeen represents perfection or completeness. In numerology, seventeen is considered a master number, representing spiritual growth and enlightenment.

How to Memorize "seventeen"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a row of seventeen dots.
   - Visualize the number seventeen as a Roman numeral: XVII.
   - Imagine the number seventeen as a row of seventeen ones in binary: 100011111.

2. associate
   

   - Associate seventeen with the number of letters in the word 'heptadecagon' which means seventeen-sided polygon.
   - Remember seventeen as the number of keys on a standard piano keyboard.
   - Associate seventeen with the number of letters in the word 'septuagenarian', which means seventy-year-old.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Seventeen is a prime number, it's not a multiple of any number between one and seventeen.'
   - Remember seventeen as 'seven tens and two'.
   - Use the mnemonic 'Seventeen is the number of letters in the word 'septet', which means a group of seven.'

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