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sixteen

Syllabification: (six·teen)

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Definition of sixteen

number

  • equivalent to the product of four and four; one more than fifteen, or six more than ten; 16:sixteen miles east of Detroit sixteen of our eighteen patients (Roman numeral: xvi, XVI)
  • a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by sixteen.
  • sixteen years old:a daughter of sixteen

Derivatives

sixteenth


number

Origin:

Old English siextīene (see six, -teen)

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