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

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

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

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

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon

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

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

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

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.
Busta Rhymes

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
Trey Anastasio

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

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
Betty Buckley

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
Jim Dale

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
Eric Bogosian

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Mary A. Ward

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
John Byng

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
Henry Mayhew

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.
Mickey Gilley

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've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
Benjamin Bratt

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
Janis Ian

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
Noel Redding

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
Randal Kleiser

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
Robert Indiana

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
John Foxe

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
King Hussein

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

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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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