What does Sixteen mean?
Definitions for Sixteen
ˈsɪksˈtinsix·teen
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Sixteen.
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
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sixteenadjective
Six and ten.
Etymology: sixtyne , Saxon.
I have been begging sixteen years in court. William Shakespeare.
It returned the voice thirteen times; and I have heard of others that it would return sixteen times. Francis Bacon.
If men lived but twenty years, we should be satisfied if they died about sixteen or eighteen. Taylor.
Wikipedia
Sixteen
Sixteen is a song by English singer Ellie Goulding, released as a single through Polydor Records on 12 April 2019. It was co-written by Goulding with Raye and Fred, and produced by Ian Kirkpatrick, Fred and Mike Wise. Goulding has said the song is about the "reckless days of adolescence".
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sixteen
Sixteen is a number in the decimal number system, represented as 16, and it is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. It is an even number and is considered one of the integers. It also corresponds to one dozen plus four in the duodecimal number system, and is written as 10 in hexadecimal. Furthermore, it can be identified as the age of consent in many jurisdictions, the minimum driving and voting age in many countries, and a symbol of adolescence.
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.]
Wikidata
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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British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sixteen' in Written Corpus Frequency: #776
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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
Each of the sixteen persons who signed the unofficial Elector Certificate ultimately submitted to the National Archives received a similar target letter alerting, that person both that his testimony was required by the special purpose grand jury and that he was a target of the investigation.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
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?
To be left on the side of the road. Sixteen years of age. It's just insanity, there's evil that's behind that, to take a life, a young promising life.
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.
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Translations for Sixteen
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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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