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seventeen

num · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK, US: /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/
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  • UK, US: /ˌsɛv.ənˈtiːn/
  • rhymes with -iːn
  • CMU ARPABET: S EH1 V AH0 N T IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

num

Meaning 1

The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

being one more than sixteen

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 17, xvii

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 17, XVII

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten. Equivalent to seven + -teen

Across languages

Translations

222 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: sewentien — cardinal number
  • Ainu: アラワン イカシマ ワン — cardinal number
  • Ainu: arawan ikasima wan — cardinal number
  • Albanian: shtatëmbëdhjetë — cardinal number
  • Southern Altai: он јети (on ǰeti) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: አስራ ሰባት (ʾäsra säbat) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ (sabʕata ʕašara) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: سبعتاشر (sabaʕtāšar) — cardinal number
  • Aragonese: decisiet — cardinal number
  • Aragonese: dechiset — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: שבעסר (shba‘sar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: שבעסרא (shba‘esrē) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܫܒܥܣܪ (shba‘sar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܫܒܥܣܪܐ (shba‘esrē) — cardinal number
  • Armenian: տասնյոթ (tasnyotʻ) — cardinal number
  • Old Armenian: եօթնեւտասն (eōtʻnewtasn) — cardinal number
  • Asturian: diecisiete — cardinal number
  • Aymara: tunka paqallquni — cardinal number
  • Azerbaijani: on yeddi — cardinal number
  • Bashkir: ун ете (un yete) — cardinal number
  • Basque: hamazazpi — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: сямна́ццаць (sjamnáccacʹ) — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: семна́ццаць (sjemnáccacʹ) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: সতেরো (śoterō) — cardinal number
  • Central Bikol: kagpito — cardinal number
  • Central Bikol: diyesisiyete — cardinal number
  • Breton: seitek — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: седемна́десет (sedemnádeset) — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: седемна́йсет (sedemnájset) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: ဆယ့်ခုနစ် (hcai.hku.nac) — cardinal number
  • Buryat: арбан долоон (arban doloon) — cardinal number
  • Carpathian Rusyn: сїмна́дцять (sjimnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Catalan: disset — cardinal number
  • Cebuano: napulog pito — cardinal number
  • Chechen: вуьрхӏитта (vürhitta) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏆᏚ (galiquadu) — cardinal number
  • Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'ziwiri — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 十七 — cardinal number
  • Hakka Chinese: 十七 (sṳ̍p-chhit) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Mandarin: 十七 (shíqī) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунҫиччӗ (vunś̬iččĕ) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунҫичӗ (vunś̬ič̬ĕ) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунҫич (vunś̬ič) — cardinal number
  • Cornish: seytek — cardinal number
  • Crimean Tatar: on yedi — cardinal number
  • Czech: sedmnáct — cardinal number
  • Dalmatian: dichisapto — cardinal number
  • Danish: sytten — cardinal number
  • Dena'ina: qents'eghuy'i beq'di — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: ސަތާރަ (satāra) — cardinal number
  • Dutch: zeventien — cardinal number
  • Dzongkha: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun) — cardinal number
  • Ifè: máaméedze — cardinal number
  • Ifè: mɛ́ɛtaɖìnógú — cardinal number
  • Edo: èháírrọ̀vbúgiè — cardinal number
  • Esperanto: dek sep — cardinal number
  • Estonian: seitseteist — cardinal number
  • Fijian: tini ka vitu — cardinal number
  • Finnish: seitsemäntoista — cardinal number
  • French: dix-sept — cardinal number
  • West-Frisian: santjin — cardinal number
  • Friulian: disesiet — cardinal number
  • Galician: dezasete — cardinal number
  • Georgian: ჩვიდმეტი (čvidmeṭi) — cardinal number
  • German: siebzehn — cardinal number
  • Greek: δεκαεπτά (dekaeptá) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ἑπτακαίδεκα (heptakaídeka) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ιζ ́ — cardinal number
  • Greenlandic: arfersaneq-marluk — cardinal number
  • Gujarati: સત્તર (sattar) — cardinal number
  • Haitian Creole: disèt — cardinal number
  • Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāhiku — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: שְׁבַע־עֶשְׂרֵה (shva esre) — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂר (shiv'a asar) — cardinal number
  • Hindi: सत्रह (satrah) — cardinal number
  • Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsange’ siikya’ta — cardinal number
  • Hungarian: tizenhét — cardinal number
  • Hunsrik: sibzen — cardinal number
  • Icelandic: sautján — cardinal number
  • Ido: dek-e-sep — cardinal number
  • Igala: ẹ̀gwébie — cardinal number
  • Igbo: ìri nà àsaà — cardinal number
  • Indonesian: tujuh belas — cardinal number
  • Ingrian: seitsentoist — cardinal number
  • Interlingua: dece-septe — cardinal number
  • Inupiaq: akimiaq malġuk — cardinal number
  • Irish: seacht déag — cardinal number
  • Italian: diciassette — cardinal number
  • Japanese: 十七 — cardinal number
  • Javanese: pitulas — cardinal number
  • Jeju: 열일곱 (yeorilgop) — cardinal number
  • Jeju: 십칠 (sipchil) — cardinal number
  • Kannada: ಹದಿನೇಳು (hadinēḷu) — cardinal number
  • S'gaw Karen: တဆံနွံ (ta hsee nwee) — cardinal number
  • Kazakh: он жеті (on jetı) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំពីរ (dop pram pī) — cardinal number
  • Komi-Permyak: дассизим (dasśiźim) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 열일곱 (yeorilgop) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 십칠 (sipchil) — cardinal number
  • Central Kurdish: حەڤدە (ḧevde) — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: hevde — cardinal number
  • Kyrgyz: он жети (on jeti) — cardinal number
  • Ladino: דייזיסייטי — cardinal number
  • Ladino: diezisiete — cardinal number
  • Lakota: akéšakowiŋ — cardinal number
  • Lao: ສິບເຈັດ (sip chet) — cardinal number
  • Latin: septendecim — cardinal number
  • Latvian: septiņpadsmit — cardinal number
  • Ligurian: dîsètte — cardinal number
  • Lithuanian: septyniolika — cardinal number
  • Livonian: seistuoistõn — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: disèt — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: di-sèt — cardinal number
  • Low German: söventeihn — cardinal number
  • Low German: söventeihn — cardinal number
  • : ᦉᦲᧇᦵᦈᧆ (ṡiibṫsed) — cardinal number
  • Lucumí: eta dilogun — cardinal number
  • Lucumí: meta dilogún — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: siwwenzéng — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: siwenzéng — cardinal number
  • Macedonian: седумнаесет (sedumnaeset) — cardinal number
  • Malagasy: fito ambinifolo — cardinal number
  • Malay: tujuh belas — cardinal number
  • Malay: pitu belas — cardinal number
  • Malay: sepuluh tujuh — cardinal number
  • Malay: sepuluh pitu — cardinal number
  • Malay: satu puluh tujuh — cardinal number
  • Malay: satu puluh pitu — cardinal number
  • Brunei Malay: tujuh balas — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: പതിനേഴ് (patinēḻŭ) — cardinal number
  • Maltese: sbatax — cardinal number
  • Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ (juwan nadan) — cardinal number
  • Māori: tekau mā whitu — cardinal number
  • Mapudungun: marirekle — cardinal number
  • Middle English: seventene — cardinal number
  • Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- kenék·aky-ˀ hej·i-ˀ — cardinal number
  • Mongolian: арван долоо (arvan doloo) — cardinal number
  • Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜtshǖnīeh — cardinal number
  • Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli omōme — cardinal number
  • Navajo: tsostsʼidtsʼáadah — cardinal number
  • Nigerian Pidgin: sẹ́vìntín — cardinal number
  • Norman: dgiêx-sept — cardinal number
  • Norwegian: sytten — cardinal number
  • Nuosu: ꏃ (shyp) — cardinal number
  • Occitan: dètz-e-sèt — cardinal number
  • Odia: ସତର (satara) — cardinal number
  • Ojibwe: ashi-niizhwaaswi — cardinal number
  • Old Church Slavonic: седмь на десѧте (sedmĭ na desęte) — cardinal number
  • Olukumi: mèzelémègwa — cardinal number
  • Pannonian Rusyn: седемнац (sedemnac) — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: siwwezeh — cardinal number
  • Persian: هفده (hefdah) — cardinal number
  • Piedmontese: dissèt — cardinal number
  • Polish: siedemnaście — cardinal number
  • Polish: siedemnaścioro — cardinal number
  • Portuguese: dezassete — cardinal number
  • Portuguese: dezessete — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: ਸਤਾਰਾਂ (satārā̃) — cardinal number
  • Quechua: chunka qanchisniyuq — cardinal number
  • Réunion Creole French: disèt — cardinal number
  • Romagnol: diccèt — cardinal number
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-efta — cardinal number
  • Romanian: șaptesprezece — cardinal number
  • Romanian: șapteșpe — cardinal number
  • Romansh: deschset — cardinal number
  • Russian: семна́дцать (semnádcatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Inari-Sami: čiččâmnubáloh — cardinal number
  • Northern Sami: čiežanuppelohkái — cardinal number
  • Skolt-Sami: činmlo — cardinal number
  • Samoan: sefulu fitu — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: सप्तदश (saptádaśa) — cardinal number
  • Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱮᱭᱟᱭ (gel eyay) — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: seachd-deug — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: седамнаест — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: sedamnaest — cardinal number
  • Shan: သိပ်းၸဵတ်း (síp tsáet) — cardinal number
  • Sikkimese: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun) — cardinal number
  • Sinhalese: දහහත (dahahata) — cardinal number
  • Slovak: sedemnásť — cardinal number
  • Slovene: sedemnajst — cardinal number
  • Lower Sorbian: sedymnasćo — cardinal number
  • Upper Sorbian: sydomnaće — cardinal number
  • Spanish: diecisiete — cardinal number
  • Swahili: kumi na saba — cardinal number
  • Swedish: sjutton — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: labimpito — cardinal number
  • Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma hitu — cardinal number
  • Tajik: ҳафдаҳ (hafdah) — cardinal number
  • Tamil: பதினேழு (patiṉēḻu) — cardinal number
  • Tatar: унҗиде (uncide) — cardinal number
  • Telugu: పదిహేడు (padihēḍu) — cardinal number
  • Thai: สิบเจ็ด (sìp-jèt) — cardinal number
  • Tibetan: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun) — cardinal number
  • Tigre: ዐስር ወሰቡዕ (ʿäsr wäsäbuʿ) — cardinal number
  • Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሸውዓተ (ʿasärtä šäwʿatä) — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: seventin — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: wanpela ten seven — cardinal number
  • Tongan: hongofulu mā fitu — cardinal number
  • Turkish: on yedi — cardinal number
  • Turkmen: on ýedi — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: сімна́дцять (simnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Urdu: سترہ (satrah) — cardinal number
  • Uyghur: ئون يەتتە (on yette) — cardinal number
  • Uzbek: oʻn yetti — cardinal number
  • Vietnamese: mười bảy — cardinal number
  • Volapük: degvel — cardinal number
  • Volapük: balsevel — cardinal number
  • Votic: seittseteiššümed — cardinal number
  • Welsh: dau ar bymtheg — cardinal number
  • Welsh: dwy ar bymtheg — cardinal number
  • Welsh: un deg saith — cardinal number
  • Wolof: fukk ak juróom ñaar — cardinal number
  • Yakut: уон сэттэ (uon sette) — cardinal number
  • Yiddish: זיבעצן (zibetsn) — cardinal number
  • Yoruba: ẹ̀tàdínlógún — cardinal number
  • Yoruba: ẹẹ́tàdínlógún — cardinal number
  • Yoruba: mẹ́tàdínlógún — cardinal number
  • Yucatec Maya: uʼuklajun — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: akimiaq malruk — cardinal number
  • Zazaki: hewtês (diq) — cardinal number
  • Zazaki: desuhewt — cardinal number
  • Zhuang: cib caet — cardinal number
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