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Sixteen

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being one more than fifteen wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.

    "Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six + -teen.

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