sixteen
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noun
1.
a cardinal number, ten plus six.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 16 or XVI.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
4.
amounting to 16 in number.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | See also number the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and six |
| 2. | a numeral, 16, XVI, etc, representing this number |
| 3. | music the numeral 16 used as the lower figure of a time signature to indicate that the beat is measured in semiquavers |
| 4. | something represented by, representing, or consisting of 16 units |
| —determiner | |
| 5. | a. amounting to sixteen: sixteen tons |
| b. (as pronoun): sixteen are known to the police | |
| [Old English sextyne] | |
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Word Origin & History
sixteen
"The age of the gods is always sixteen. Sixteen represents the number of perfection, of plenitude. In man it is after the sixteenth year that the first elements of decay begin to appear, and when the moon reaches the sixteenth digit it begins to decrease." [Alain Daniélou, "The Myths and Gods of India"]
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Example sentences
Two local teenagers, one eighteen and the other sixteen at the time, were eventually convicted of the killing.
Sixteen mummies still had identifiable hearts or arteries.
The standard horsecar, which seated twenty, was drawn by a pair of roans and ran sixteen hours a day.
Sixteen of the deaths have happened in the first four months of this year.
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