Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: seventeen
IPA transcription: [s'ɛvənt'in]
Pronunciations of seventeen
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seventeen, 17, xvii
    Meaning: being one more than sixteen
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: seventeen, 17, XVII
    Meaning: the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
Usage examples
  • Chapter Seventeen
  • And--Dick's seventeen!
  • thirteen, fifteen, seventeen.
  • "Not unless we can count seventeen by twos," answered the Tin Woodman.
  • Every man shall swear by the most binding oath of his country, seventeen from each city.
  • They were young; the eldest being about twenty, the youngest not far from seventeen years of age.
  • At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.
  • We started out of the little inlet and got into the Channel, and that boat went in seventeen directions simultaneously.
  • "Why not start counting at a half of one?" asked the Saw-Horse, abruptly. "Then anyone can count up to seventeen by twos very easily."
  • In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Federalist No. 42, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Longest word in English, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sunderland A.F.C., License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Saint Petersburg, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Beatles, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Perfect Dark, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording List of Canadian Idol finalists, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Angelo Fabroni, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Emily Donelson, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 1973 world oil market chronology, License CC BY-SA 4.0