SIXTEENTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixteenth mean? 

• SIXTEENTH (noun)
  The noun SIXTEENTH has 2 senses:

1. position 16 in a countable series of things

2. one part in sixteen equal parts

  Familiarity information: SIXTEENTH used as a noun is rare.

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

1. coming next after the fifteenth in position

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIXTEENTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 16 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in sixteen equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-sixteenth; sixteenth; sixteenth part

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

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• SIXTEENTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the fifteenth in position

Synonyms:

16th; sixteenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

The designation for each member of the sixteenth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 16, NCI Thesaurus)

A measure of weight (one-sixteenth pound) and volume (one-eighth cup).

(Ounce, NCI Dictionary)

He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.

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