sixteenth

[ siks-teenth ]

/ ˈsɪksˈtinθ /

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adjective

next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.

being one of 16 equal parts.

noun

a sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16).

the sixteenth member of a series.

Music. sixteenth note.

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Origin of sixteenth

before 900; Middle English sixtenthe (see sixteen, -th²); replacing Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe,Old English sixtēotha (see tithe)

Words nearby sixteenth

six-spot, sixte, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixteenpenny, sixteenth, Sixteenth Amendment, sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixth, Sixth Amendment

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How to use sixteenth in a sentence

Protecting 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
In the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Virginia now ranks sixteenth in population among the fifty states of the United States.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey

We will now take the reader to the primitive tobacco plantations of America about the middle of the Sixteenth Century.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
In a special alcove was a large number of priceless Fourteenth and Sixteenth Century editions.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Ducking back through the firedoor, he ran quickly up to the sixteenth floor, up past the fifteenth.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

British Dictionary definitions for sixteenth

sixteenth

/ (ˈsɪksˈtiːnθ) /

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)

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