sixteen
Pronunciation: [sɪkˈstin]
Word
Context: “numbers”
(noun) sixteen is the number that comes after fifteen and before seventeen. It is written as '16' in digits. You can think of it as a group of sixteen things, like sixteen apples or sixteen toys.
Example
There are sixteen students in my class.
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There aren't sixteen pieces of candy; there are only ten.
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How many cookies did you bake? Did you bake sixteen?
Context: “quantities”
(adjective) when we say something is sixteen, it means it has the amount of sixteen. If you have sixteen balloons, you have exactly that number, no more and no less.
Example
We bought sixteen balloons for the party.
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She didn’t want sixteen gifts; she only wanted three.
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Are there sixteen chairs set up for the event?
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