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sixteen

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1. sixteen - Noun

2. sixteen - Adjective

3. sixteen - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

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One 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

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