sixteenth

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun position 16 in a countable series of things
  2. noun one part in sixteen equal parts
  3. adjective coming next after the fifteenth in position

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe, from Old English sixtēoþa, equivalent to sixteen + -th.

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