sixteenth
pronunciation
How to pronounce sixteenth in British English:
UK [ˌsɪks'ti:nθ]
How to pronounce sixteenth in American English:
US [sɪkˈstinθ]
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- Noun:
- position 16 is a countable series of things
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- Adjective:
- coming next after the fifteenth in position
Word Origin
- sixteenth (adj.)
- early 13c., from sixteen + -th (1); replacing sixtethe, sixteothe, forms based on Old English syxteoða. Cf Old Frisian sextinda, Middle Dutch sestiende, German sechzehnte, Old Norse sextandi. Musical sixteenth note is from 1861.
Example
- 1. The sixteenth amendment to the constitution changed that .
- 2. Not surprisingly , america 's sixteenth president is a hero of another former illinois lawmaker .
- 3. Measurejohannes kepler was a german astronomer and mathematician of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries .
- 4. Barack obama plans to honor the sixteenth president , one of his political heroes , at his own inauguration .
- 5. Abraham lincoln was the sixteenth president of the united states . He was born in kentucky in 1809 .