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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.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sixteenth1

before 900; Middle English sixtenthe ( sixteen, -th 2 ); replacing Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe, Old English ŧdzٳ ( tithe )
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When Kelsey Barnard Clark won the sixteenth season of "Top Chef," set in Kentucky, she clinched victory with a dish that defied fine dining expectations: cornbread and buttermilk with crawfish, boiled peanuts, cucumber and watermelon.

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The 5-year-old mare ran just off the leader and then made her move with about a sixteenth of a mile to go and just got up at the wire.

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

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

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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."

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