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Definition of Sixteenth
1. Adjective. Coming next after the fifteenth in position.
2. Noun. Position 16 in a countable series of things.
3. Noun. One part in sixteen equal parts.
Definition of Sixteenth
1. a. Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
2. n. The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
Definition of Sixteenth
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number sixteen. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of sixteen equal parts of a whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sixteenth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixteenth
Literary usage of Sixteenth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"That Congress had debased the coinage one sixteenth would not establish the right
to further debase it; would, at most, indicate that the power to regulate ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Early in the sixteenth century the Osmanli Sultans at Constantinople were uniting
under their authority Syria, Egypt, in fact all the Asiatic provinces of ..."
3. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"In his place were appointed San Gallo and Raphael and Michelangelo, together or
in turn, and towers were added after the close of the sixteenth century. ..."
4. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"The love for the grandiose, carried to excess in St. Peter's, is visible in other
sixteenth century ecclesiastical buildings, such as the Badia at Florence. ..."
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