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Word

sixteenth

Phoneticssix·teenth

US/ˈsɪkˈstinθ/

UK/sˈɪkstiːnθ/

Definitions

01position in a sequence

A2

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

16th

02one of sixteen parts

B1

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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