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sixteeners

sixteeners is the plural of sixteener.

Meaning of sixteener

Noun

sixteener (plural sixteeners)

  1. (historical) During the American Civil War, a child who, having reached the age of 16, was discharged from a soldiers' orphan school.

Questions about sixteeners

What is sixteeners the plural of?
Sixteeners is the plural of sixteener.

Words near sixteeners in the dictionary

  1. sixteen penny nail
  2. sixteen penny nails
  3. sixteen-penny nail
  4. sixteen-penny nails
  5. sixteener
  6. sixteeners
  7. sixteenfold
  8. sixteenish
  9. sixteenmo
  10. sixteenmos
  11. sixteenpence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sixteeners (page history and authors); sixteener (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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