sixteenth

[ siks-teenth ]

adjective

1. next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
2. being one of 16 equal parts.

noun

1. a sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16).
2. the sixteenth member of a series.
3. Music. sixteenth note.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sixteenth¹

before 900; Middle English sixtenthe ( sixteen, -th ² ); replacing Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe, Old English sixtēotha ( tithe )

Example Sentences

Protecting its most valued informant may well explain why it took decades to bring the Sixteenth Street Church bombers to justice.

From The Daily Beast

Was Rowe involved in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church?

From The Daily Beast

In the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.

From Project Gutenberg

Virginia now ranks sixteenth in population among the fifty states of the United States.

From Project Gutenberg

We will now take the reader to the primitive tobacco plantations of America about the middle of the Sixteenth Century.

From Project Gutenberg

In a special alcove was a large number of priceless Fourteenth and Sixteenth Century editions.

From Project Gutenberg

Ducking back through the firedoor, he ran quickly up to the sixteenth floor, up past the fifteenth.

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