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[ siks-teenth ] / ˈsɪksˈtinθ /
adjectivenext after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16. being one of 16 equal parts. nouna sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16). the sixteenth member of a series. Music. sixteenth note. Origin of sixteenthbefore 900; Middle English sixtenthe (see sixteen, -th2); replacing Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe,Old English sixtēotha (see tithe) Words nearby sixteenthsix-spot, sixte, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixteenpenny, sixteenth, Sixteenth Amendment, sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixth, Sixth Amendment Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sixteenthProtecting its most valued informant may well explain why it took decades to bring the Sixteenth Street Church bombers to justice. 40 years for Justice: Did the FBI Cover for the Birmingham Bombers?|Gary May|September 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST Was Rowe involved in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church? 40 years for Justice: Did the FBI Cover for the Birmingham Bombers?|Gary May|September 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST When I compare the position of the reader of to-day with that of his predecessor of the sixteenth century. Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3|Various On the sixteenth of December a last attempt was made to find the Trouwe. The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators|Hendrik Willem van Loon
"We knew it was land beyond a doubt on the sixteenth," says Steller. Vikings of the Pacific|Agnes C. Laut Three months after my birth we "moved" a hundred miles; by my sixteenth year we had made eleven migrations. Tales of the Chesapeake|George Alfred Townsend The Chateau de Tanlay is a superb relic of a sixteenth century work. Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy|Francis Miltoun
British Dictionary definitions for sixteenth
adjective(usually prenominal) - coming after the fifteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of sixteen: often written 16th
- (as noun)the sixteenth of the month
noun- one of 16 equal or nearly equal parts of something
- (as modifier)a sixteenth part
the fraction that is equal to one divided by 16 (1/16) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |