Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ordinal number matching the number 16 in a series.
- noun One of 16 equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next in order after the fifteenth; being the sixth after the tenth: the ordinal of sixteen.
- Being one of sixteen equal parts into which a whole is divided.
- noun One of sixteen equal parts.
- noun In music: The melodic or harmonic interval of two octaves and a second.
- noun A sixteenth-note.
- noun In early Eng. law. a sixteenth of the rents of the year, or of movables, or both, granted or levied by way of tax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
- noun The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
- noun (Mus.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
- adjective Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
- adjective Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
- adjective (Mus.) the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number
sixteen . - noun fractional One of
sixteen equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one part in sixteen equal parts
- adjective coming next after the fifteenth in position
- noun position 16 in a countable series of things
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Examples
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Back in sixteenth century England, when Elizabeth I was queen, she tried quite vigorously to make the Church of England the church of England.
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Catholic reforming activity in sixteenth century has been the subject of intense historical debate.
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But it isn't just that he knows so much, he is also incredibly enthusiastic and excited about history, and is able to always communicate that enthusiasm, so that when you are listening to him you also get excited about rabbinic intrigues in sixteenth century France.
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Catholic reforming activity in sixteenth century has been the subject of intense historical debate.
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The French historian, Georges Vigarello, has shown this was not the case, at least not for court society in sixteenth - and seventeenth-century Europe.
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