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1. seventeen
adjective. ['ˈsɛvənˈtiːn'] being one more than sixteen.
Antonyms
Etymology
- seventene (Middle English (1100-1500))
- seofontiene (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
Rhymes with Seventeen
- augustin
- barentine
- bodenstein
- bornstein
- canteen
- cantin
- casteen
- chasteen
- chretien
- christine
- cortine
- eighteen
- eighteen
- fifteen
- fifteen
- foltene
- fourteen
- fourteen
- gelatine
- guertin
Quotes about seventeen
1. Seventeen, eh!"said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""Vaguely,"said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forge’ the details,"Hagrid chortled.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
- Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
3. My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
- Adrien Brody