What does sixteen mean?
Definitions for sixteen
ˈsɪksˈtinsix·teen
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Princeton's WordNet
sixteen, 16, XVIadjective
the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
sixteen, 16, xviadjective
being one more than fifteen
Webster Dictionary
Sixteenadjective
six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more
Sixteennoun
the number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects
Sixteennoun
a symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi
Etymology: [AS. sixtne, sixtne. See Six, and Ten, and cf. Sixty.]
Freebase
Sixteen
Sixteen was a Polish band, which was founded in 1997 and disbanded in 2004. Renata Dąbkowska is its lead singer, and it represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998. Their debut album "Lawa" was released in 1997. During the later part of 1998, the band became known as Seventeen and sometimes Sixteen-Seventeen.
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Rank popularity for the word 'sixteen' in Written Corpus Frequency: #776
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sixteen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sixteen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of sixteen in a Sentence
The big question is what does the district look like because the only thing we know for sure is there aren't going to be sixteen districts in Northeast Ohio, until we know, we are just spitting in the wind here.
Sixteen years is very unwise to let war happen on auto-pilot.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?
Really what you need to do is look at water, because water is how Angkor worked, go somewhere like the West Baray, which is just staggering. Sixteen square kilometers of engineered water. The guides have almost nothing to say about it all.
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- sestienAfrikaans
- سِتَّةَ عَشَرَArabic
- tunka suxtaniAymara
- on altıAzerbaijani
- ун алтыBashkir
- шасна́ццацьBelarusian
- шестна́десетBulgarian
- সোলোBengali
- c'hwezekBreton
- setzeCatalan, Valencian
- ялхиттаChechen
- šestnáctCzech
- шєсть на дєсѧтєOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- un deg chwech, un ar bymthegWelsh
- sekstenDanish
- sechzehnGerman
- δεκαέξιGreek
- dek sesEsperanto
- dieciséisSpanish
- kuusteistEstonian
- hamaseiBasque
- شانزدهPersian
- kuusitoistaFinnish
- seizeFrench
- sechstjinWestern Frisian
- sé déagIrish
- dezaseisGalician
- שֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה, שתעסר, שתעסרא, שִׁשָּׁה־עָשָׂרHebrew
- सोलहHindi
- sèzHaitian Creole
- tizenhatHungarian
- տասնվեցArmenian
- dece-sexInterlingua
- enam belasIndonesian
- sextánIcelandic
- sediciItalian
- 十六Japanese
- თექვსმეტიGeorgian
- он алтыKazakh
- arvirsanillitKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ដប់ប្រាំមួយKhmer
- 십육, 十六, 열여섯, 열 여섯Korean
- şazdeKurdish
- он алтыKyrgyz
- sēdecimLatin
- ເລກສິບຫົກLao
- sešpadsmitLatvian
- шесна́есетMacedonian
- арван зургааMongolian
- sepuluh enam, satu puluh enam, enam belasMalay
- sittaxMaltese
- ဆယ့်ခြောက်Burmese
- zestienDutch
- sekstenNorwegian
- hastą́ʼáadahNavajo, Navaho
- khumi n'zisanu n'chimodziChichewa, Chewa, Nyanja
- setzeOccitan
- ashi-ingodwaaswiOjibwe, Ojibwa
- ଶୋଳ, ୧୬Oriya
- ਸੋਲ੍ਹਾਂPanjabi, Punjabi
- szesnaścioro, szesnaściePolish
- dezasseis, dezesseisPortuguese
- chunka suqtayuqQuechua
- sedisch, saidesch, sedeschRomansh
- șaișpe, șaisprezeceRomanian
- шестна́дцатьRussian
- सोस्दषन्Sanskrit
- sedichi, seighi, seghi, segiSardinian
- šesnaest, шеснаестSerbo-Croatian
- දහසයSinhala, Sinhalese
- šestnásťSlovak
- šestnajstSlovene
- gjashtëmbëdhjetëAlbanian
- sextonSwedish
- పదహారుTelugu
- шонздаҳTajik
- สิบหกThai
- on altyTurkmen
- labing-animTagalog
- on altıTurkish
- уналтыTatar
- ئون ئالتەUyghur, Uighur
- шістна́дцятьUkrainian
- سولہUrdu
- mười sáuVietnamese
- degmälVolapük
- זעכצןYiddish
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