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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope