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# seventeen

«seventeen» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 17, one more than sixteen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (seventeen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Seventeen is the number 17, one more than sixteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#m1)

2) Seventeen is ten and seven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a number of things or an age; 17 is a prime number. Everyday: ages (a seventeen-year-old), prices, scores.

### examples

- Seventeen birds sat on the wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x1)
- He is seventeen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x2)
- She has seventeen dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x3)
- How much are seventeen and five? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x4)
- Seventeen is a prime number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x5)
- My sister is seventeen and learning to drive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x6)
- There are seventeen pupils in our reading group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x7)
- She was now seventeen, and he nineteen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/#x8)

### note

A number word; read it as 17. Trap: do not confuse seventeen (17) with seventy (70): «-teen» means plus ten, «-ty» means tens. Stress: sev-en-TEEN.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seventeen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventeen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.