Sixteen - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˌsɪksˈtiːn|  American pronunciation of the word sixteen
Brit.  |sɪksˈtiːn|  British pronunciation of the word sixteen

noun

- the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one

adjective

- being one more than fifteen

Extra examples

I started working when I was sixteen.

Boys are not allowed to copulate with girls under sixteen.

Sixteen ounces go to the pound.

I earned sixteen shillings a week by lumping in the docks.

The disease has tormented me for sixteen years.

Gold, during the Middle Ages, was about sixteen times more valuable than the same weight of silver.

'How old are you?' 'Sixteen.' 'I'm sixteen too,' put in Dixie.

At sixteen, I resigned myself to the fact that I'd never be a dancer.

She was sixteen, young and vibrant.

Sixteen teams took part in the 400m bobsleigh.

His usual allowance was sixteen cups of tea, all of heroic strength.

Two of them made twenty stones each in sixteen weeks.

Jupiter has sixteen moons

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