sixteen

[Six·teen`]

The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one

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The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

Noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one

Adjective S.
being one more than fifteen


a.
Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.

n.
The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

n.
A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.


Sixteen

Six"teen`, n. 1. The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects. 2. A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.

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Usage Examples

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Misspelled Form

sixteen, asixteen, wsixteen, esixteen, dsixteen, xsixteen, zsixteen, aixteen, wixteen, eixteen, dixteen, xixteen, zixteen, saixteen, swixteen, seixteen, sdixteen, sxixteen, szixteen, suixteen, s8ixteen, s9ixteen, soixteen, sjixteen, skixteen, suxteen, s8xteen, s9xteen, soxteen, sjxteen, skxteen, siuxteen, si8xteen, si9xteen, sioxteen, sijxteen, sikxteen, sizxteen, sisxteen, sidxteen, sicxteen, sizteen, sisteen, sidteen, sicteen, sixzteen, sixsteen, sixdteen, sixcteen, sixrteen, six5teen, six6teen, sixyteen, sixgteen, sixreen, six5een, six6een, sixyeen, sixgeen, sixtreen, sixt5een, sixt6een, sixtyeen, sixtgeen, sixtween, sixt3een, sixt4een, sixtreen, sixtseen, sixtdeen, sixtwen, sixt3en, sixt4en, sixtren, sixtsen, sixtden, sixtewen, sixte3en, sixte4en, sixteren, sixtesen, sixteden, sixtewen, sixte3en, sixte4en, sixteren, sixtesen, sixteden, sixtewn, sixte3n, sixte4n, sixtern, sixtesn, sixtedn, sixteewn, sixtee3n, sixtee4n, sixteern, sixteesn, sixteedn, sixteebn, sixteehn, sixteejn, sixteemn, sixtee n, sixteeb, sixteeh, sixteej, sixteem, sixtee , sixteenb, sixteenh, sixteenj, sixteenm, sixteen .

Other Usage Examples

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

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