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Definition of Seventeen
Seventeen

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.

A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.

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Seventeen Quotations

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
R. Lee Ermey

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
Sam Kinison

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
Shirley Temple

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.
Gordon Parks

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
Olga Korbut

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
Satyajit Ray

Seventeen Translations

seventeen in Afrikaans is sewentien
seventeen in Danish is sytten
seventeen in Dutch is zeventien
seventeen in French is dix-sept, dix sept
seventeen in German is siebzehn
seventeen in Italian is diciassette, diciasette
seventeen in Norwegian is sytten
seventeen in Portuguese is dezessete, dazassete
seventeen in Spanish is diecisiete
seventeen in Swedish is sjutton


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