1. sixteenth - Noun
2. sixteenth - Adjective
3. sixteenth - Adjective Satellite
Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOn October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening. Abby Sunderland
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow. Francis Parkman
The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord. Otis Redding
One wonders how the literary revisionists and canon cleansers can bear to take the money. Imagine a school of sixteenth century art criticism that spent its time contently jeering at the past for not knowing about perspective. Martin Amis
The crisis of production today is the crisis of the antagonism between manual and intellectual labor. The problem of modern philosophy from Descartes in the sixteenth century to Stalinism in 1950 is the problem of the division of labor between the intellectuals and the workers. C. L. R. James