Sixteenth
noun
Placed at number 16 in a list.
Today is the sixteenth of October.
Often appears as...
- sixteenth birthday
- sixteenth century
adjective
Next after the fifteenth.
This is her sixteenth birthday.
Often appears as...
- sixteenth century
- sixteenth birthday
noun
One part of sixteen equal parts.
Cut the cake into sixteenths.
Often appears as...
- barely a sixteenth
- cut into sixteenths
noun
The musical note that is half a length of an eighth note.
Play a series of sixteenth notes.
Often appears as...
- sixteenth note
- sixteenth rest
noun
Placed at number 16 in a list.
Today is the sixteenth of October.
Often appears as...
- sixteenth birthday
- sixteenth century
adjective
Next after the fifteenth.
This is her sixteenth birthday.
Often appears as...
- sixteenth century
- sixteenth birthday
noun
One part of sixteen equal parts.
Cut the cake into sixteenths.
Often appears as...
- barely a sixteenth
- cut into sixteenths
noun
The musical note that is half a length of an eighth note.
Play a series of sixteenth notes.
Often appears as...
- sixteenth note
- sixteenth rest
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used to show the order of things in a sequence; often in dates and lists.
She finished sixteenth in the race.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Reference to centuries when talking about history or classical topics.
Shakespeare lived during the sixteenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Birthday Milestone
Marks significant age milestones in many cultures, especially turning 16.
Her sixteenth birthday was a huge celebration.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used to show the order of things in a sequence; often in dates and lists.
She finished sixteenth in the race.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Reference to centuries when talking about history or classical topics.
Shakespeare lived during the sixteenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Birthday Milestone
Marks significant age milestones in many cultures, especially turning 16.
Her sixteenth birthday was a huge celebration.
Pro Tip 1/3Ordinal Usage
Used to show the order of things in a sequence; often in dates and lists.
She finished sixteenth in the race.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Periods
Reference to centuries when talking about history or classical topics.
Shakespeare lived during the sixteenth century.
Pro Tip 3/3Birthday Milestone
Marks significant age milestones in many cultures, especially turning 16.
Her sixteenth birthday was a huge celebration.
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ten weeks and I put my life on the line in fluid that honestly worked out to true success and now to this day a young lady that was in our program we've had a number of success stories but a young lady in our program who can tell you where sixteenth
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seemed to suggest possibility and I asked what might have happened what if my examples are drawn or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first
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Kwabena Boahen: Making a...
That's 10 to the sixteenth. And they consume one and a half megawatts of power. So that would be really great, if you could add that to the production capacity in Tanzania. It would really boost the economy.
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Stories of Exploration...
ten weeks and I put my life on the line in fluid that honestly worked out to true success and now to this day a young lady that was in our program we've had a number of success stories but a young lady in our program who can tell you where sixteenth
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Africa’s rhyming history...
seemed to suggest possibility and I asked what might have happened what if my examples are drawn or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first
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Kwabena Boahen: Making a...
That's 10 to the sixteenth. And they consume one and a half megawatts of power. So that would be really great, if you could add that to the production capacity in Tanzania. It would really boost the economy.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
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Otis Redding
American Musician
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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Kate Williams
British Historian
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Sociologist
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
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Otis Redding
American Musician
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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Kate Williams
British Historian
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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