Associations to the word «Sixteen»

Wiktionary

SIXTEEN PENNY NAIL, noun. Alternative form of sixteenpenny nail

Dictionary definition

SIXTEEN, noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one.
SIXTEEN, adjective. Being one more than fifteen.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky