What part of speech is sixteens?

Sixteens can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. sixteens is a noun, plural of sixteen.

Inflections

Noun

What does sixteens mean?

Definitions

Noun

sixteen - the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one

Examples of sixteens

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1. noun In Spanish, the word for "six" is written without an accent, but the word for "sixteen" is written with one.
2. noun A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.
3. noun Sami was around fifeen or sixteen.
4. noun In Spanish, the word for "six" is written without an accent, but the word for "sixteen" is written with one.
5. noun A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.
6. noun Sami was around fifeen or sixteen.
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noun
In Spanish, the word for "six" is written without an accent, but the word for "sixteen" is written with one.
A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.
Sami was around fifeen or sixteen.
In Spanish, the word for "six" is written without an accent, but the word for "sixteen" is written with one.
A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.
Sami was around fifeen or sixteen.

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