1. sixteen - Noun
2. sixteen - Adjective
3. sixteen - Adjective Satellite
Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. Jean-Paul Sartre
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. John Cage
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind. Arthur Hugh Clough
Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant. Elizabeth Gaskell
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Truman Capote
A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty. French Proverb