sixteen
/sɪksˈtiːn
/ /ˈsɪkstiːn /cardinal number
1Equivalent to the product of four and four; one more than fifteen, or six more than ten; 16: sixteen miles east of Dublin sixteen of our eighteen patients (Roman numeral: xvi or XVI) They were working fifteen to sixteen hours a day and at the same time coping with the difficulties of living on a reduced benefit....
- A total of fifteen salmon were caught by anglers ranging in age from four years to sixteen years.
- We only have about four hundred students in all, so the most we have in a class in fifteen or sixteen.
1.1A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by sixteen.
1.2Sixteen years old: a daughter of sixteen...
- His sixteen year old daughter stood on the porch, her arms crossed over her chest, her gaze hard and cold.
- When the two adults arrived home, they were both met by their sixteen year old daughters.
- He got his first job in Joyce's of Ballymoe at the age of sixteen and went into business himself some years later as a street trader.
Origin
Old English siextīene (see six, -teen).