sixteenth
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- adjective
- /sɪkˈtiːnθ/
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decimosexto
- Tell them where you were on your sixteenth birthday, nearly two years ago.
- the sixteenth century
- fifteenth and sixteenth
- early sixteenth
Examples
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Ron was the youngest cowboy, just a month past his sixteenth birthday, the threshold for a merchant mariner's card.
Academic text (1999) -
The Sixteenth President of the United States.
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My sixteenth birthday was at Bed Bath & Beyond, so...
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But the middle years of the sixteenth century were not a time of compromise.
Academic text (1999) -
Native people have, of course, been visiting Europe since the sixteenth century.
Academic text (2011) -
By the second quarter of the sixteenth century, Antwerp had essentially become a permanent market.
Academic text (1990) -
The isotope study may show where the sixteenth-century townspeople came from originally.
Academic text (2011) -
This is her sixteenth attempt to pass the exam.
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He finally celebrated his sixteenth birthday with a big party.
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The sixteenth item on the list is the most important.
Synonyms
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Number sixteen in a list or order
Compounds
- Specialized
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A very short sound in music that lasts one sixteenth of a whole note
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Etymology
Sixteenth is built from six and -teenth, where -teenth comes from the idea of 'ten' added to a number. So sixteenth literally means 'six plus ten' (16), and as an adjective it names the position that comes after the fifteenth.