SIXTEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixteen mean? 

• SIXTEEN (noun)
  The noun SIXTEEN has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one

  Familiarity information: SIXTEEN used as a noun is very rare.

• SIXTEEN (adjective)
  The adjective SIXTEEN has 1 sense:

1. being one more than fifteen

  Familiarity information: SIXTEEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIXTEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

16; sixteen; XVI

Hypernyms ("sixteen" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• SIXTEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being one more than fifteen

Synonyms:

16; sixteen; xvi

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"An' how was I to be doin' it on sixteen hundred?" he demanded.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was a little, single-roomed hut, sixteen feet by ten.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less than sixteen in circumference.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He is now sixteen and full of activity and spirit.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With it went all hopes of getting his sixteen dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, my youngest is not sixteen.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I WON'T confine myself to four—eight, sixteen, two-and-thirty, rather than say anything calculated to overturn the Doctor's plans.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And on the porch, before the delighted family, Judge Scott, face to face with White Fang, said slowly and solemnly, sixteen times, "White Fang, you are smarter than I thought."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was still at school, but Jim had left, he being nigh sixteen and I thirteen.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)