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Meanings of sixteen in English

Catalan
16

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

16

Being one more than fifteen.

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Examples for "xvi"
Examples for "xvi"
1
Evidently something of a different nature must originally have stood between xvi.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
2
The assembling of the States General cost the life of Louis XVI.
The Psychology of Revolution
3
I went to the window; the people took me for Louis XVI.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum...
4
Gregory XVI was the last Pope in the ordinary course of affairs.
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism / Most important developmen...
5
To use the language in which the empress communicated to Louis XVI.
The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Usage of sixteen in English
1
But there were sixteen-hour work days, long lonely times on the road.
Million-dollar marriage merger
2
Either way, make sure your peel measures at least sixteen inches across.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
3
In this case, most especially, to an innocent sixteen year old child.
The Guardian
4
Hasn't seen me in sixteen years, and he feels free to criticize.
Lonesome dove
5
Participants: Four hundred sixteen UHR patients previously seen at the PACE clinic.
Pubmed
6
Results: Four hundred sixteen subjects received albumin therapy, and 414 received saline.
Pubmed
7
When all sixteen were there, she asked: 'So where is he, then?'
The Naked God
8
One corner of my pasture is in sixteen miles of the town.
Sixes and Sevens
9
It was sixteen minutes past midnight on what was now Friday morning.
The Yankee Years
10
Results: Forty patients had cavitary tuberculosis and sixteen patients had tuberculous pneumonia.
Pubmed
11
It's a long sentence, and yet that comma after sixteen is unnecessary.
The new yorker
12
Surely an order like that can wait sixteen minutes, give or take.
Earth Afire
13
I believe that I've been committing adultery for the last sixteen years.
Children of dust: a memoir of pakistan
14
It was the sound of the guns of Lucknow, sixteen miles away.
The Red Book of Heroes
15
The allies lost sixteen ships out of fifty-eight; the French not one.
Lectures on Modern history
16
The area of the valley itself is about sixteen hundred square miles.
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
Translations for sixteen
Catalan
16setze
Sixteen through the time