sixteenth

[ siks-teenth ]

adjective

1. next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
2. being one of 16 equal parts.

noun

1. a sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16).
2. the sixteenth member of a series.
3. Music. sixteenth note.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sixteenth¹

before 900; Middle English sixtenthe ( sixteen, -th ² ); replacing Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe, Old English sixtēotha ( tithe )

Example Sentences

They were the string her father had given her last year for her sixteenth birthday.

From Literature

A sixteenth child died on Sunday at a hospital in the southern city of Rafah, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported on Monday.

From BBC

He continued: "These eagles are a part of our heritage, they have been absent since the sixteenth century and I would personally love to see eagles returning to Wales."

From BBC

Booth’s curiosity about public reaction to the assassination led him to make an additional request of Jones: Please bring some current Washington newspapers from the day Lincoln died or from today, the sixteenth.

From Literature

Go For Wand was leading by a head at the sixteenth pole when she suffered an open fracture to her right cannon bone.

From Washington Times