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sixteenth
[ siks-teenth ]
adjective
- next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
- being one of 16 equal parts.
noun
- a sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16).
- the sixteenth member of a series.
- Music. sixteenth note.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sixteenth1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
They were the string her father had given her last year for her sixteenth birthday.
A sixteenth child died on Sunday at a hospital in the southern city of Rafah, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported on Monday.
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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