Associations to the word «Seventeen»

Dictionary definition

SEVENTEEN, noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one.
SEVENTEEN, adjective. Being one more than sixteen.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky