Seventeen (Adjective)
Meaning
Being one more than sixteen.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- She had been waiting seventeen days for her passport to be processed and was starting to get anxious.
- The coach told the player to run seventeen laps around the track to build up her endurance.
- Seventeen years ago, the town was hit by a devastating flood that left thousands of people homeless.
- After counting the money again, I realized I had seventeen dollars left in my wallet.
- The library has seventeen copies of the bestselling novel, but they are all currently checked out to readers.