What does sixteen mean?
Definitions for sixteen
ˈsɪksˈtinsix·teen
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Princeton's WordNet
sixteen, 16, XVI(adj)
the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
sixteen, 16, xvi(adj)
being one more than fifteen
Webster Dictionary
Sixteen(adj)
six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more
Etymology: [AS. sixtne, sixtne. See Six, and Ten, and cf. Sixty.]
Sixteen(noun)
the number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects
Etymology: [AS. sixtne, sixtne. See Six, and Ten, and cf. Sixty.]
Sixteen(noun)
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
For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
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.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
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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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