Word
sixteenth
Phoneticssix·teenth
US/ˈsɪkˈstinθ/
UK/sˈɪkstiːnθ/
Definitions
01position in a sequence
num. coming after the fifteenth and before the seventeenth.
num. the ordinal form of the number sixteen, indicating a position in a sequence.
“She celebrated her sixteenth birthday with a big party for all her friends.”
“The sixteenth century was a period of significant religious and political upheaval across the European continent.”
Synonyms
02one of sixteen parts
n. one of sixteen equal parts that make up a whole.
n. one of sixteen equal parts into which a whole is or may be divided.
“A sixteenth of the cake is a very small piece, but it was enough for me.”
“The carpenter measured the wood precisely, noting that the board was off by a sixteenth of an inch.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe, from Old English sixtēoþa, equivalent to sixteen + -th.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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