Definition of "xvii" [xvii]

• The cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one (noun)
• Being one more than sixteen (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "His annals of the Franciscan order, the Fratres Minores, in xvii. volumes in folio, (Rome, 1741,) I have now accidentally seen among the waste paper of a bookseller.] 35 See the vith book of"
• "Reaching the islands of Lamu and Zanzibar, Krapf settled in Mombasa and lived among the Swahili.xvii He might have thought of himself being on safari as he journeyed to Africa by boat, but he had yet to encounter the Bantu term for traveling and sailing."
• "They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii"