sixteen

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Cardinal: sixteen     Ordinal: sixteenth

Pronunciation

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  (UK) (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK) (US) IPA ^(key): /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/

Determiner

Determiner sixteen

1. (number) (indefinite) (plural) (count) (ordinal sixteenth) Sixteen is the number that is after fifteen and before seventeen. It can also be written as 16.

   Sixteen persons fit in this small bus.

Noun

Singular sixteen

Plural sixteens

1. The number 16.

   Six and ten makes sixteen.

2. A set of sixteen things or persons.

   These sixteen are very beautiful stones.

3. To be sixteen years old.

   In some countries, you may vote when you are sixteen