What does the word seventeen mean?

Usage examples for seventeen

  1. She must now be seventeen. – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  2. I'm thirty- four: I don't suppose the young lady is much over seventeen. – Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
  3. An hour had passed, and more, before the holy man's tale, which ran back through the past seventeen years, was finished. – Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest