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16th

16th

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Number sixteen in a list or order
  • adjective
translation icon : decimosexto
  • She was excited to celebrate her 16th birthday with friends and family.
  • 16th century
  • 16th birthday
  • late 16th century

Examples

  • Do you mean Bernard Palissy, the 16th century Huguenot ceramicist?

    Saltburn (2023)

  • The last time I got to see him was in April, at his 16th birthday party.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Couple of weeks ago, at this girl's 16th birthday party... someone started a fire.

    Empire of Light (2022)

  • You see here: "In the 16th century there came to pass..."

    Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

  • Most kids hope for a car... for their 16th birthday, not a country!

    The Princess Diaries (2001)

  • I'd have to get them into a time machine and get them back to the 16th century.

    The Exorcist (1973)

  • There was no such thing as a typical 16th-century battle formation.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Well, I said, "Daddy's still hard at work on the windows at St. Nicholas... our beautiful 16th-century church.

    Don't Look Now (1973)

  • Figure of a European soldier in "Great Benin." Benin Kingdom, Nigeria, probably 16th century.

    Academic text (1996)

  • He was a great Italian painter, 16th century from Venezia.

    Find Me Guilty (2006)

Synonyms

sixteenth
vs16th
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Next after the fifteenth in a list

is the same in meaning but shown with digits

Surface Forms

16th positive

Morphology

16th = 16 (transparent) = 16 + th

The ordinal is formed by the numeral '16' plus the productive English ordinal suffix '-th', which is directly interpretable.

Etymology

16Th is simply the number sixteen with the small ending -th, which turns a number into an order or position. So 16th means 'number sixteen in a sequence'.