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sixteen

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and six
2. a numeral, 16, XVI, etc., representing this number
3. Music the numeral 16 used as the lower figure of a time signature to indicate that the beat is measured in semiquavers
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What does it mean when you dream about the number sixteen?

This number traditionally represents a young girl’s debut into womanhood when she celebrated her sweet sixteen birthday, so it could represent a time of maturity. In numerology, the

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In this fresh novel about accepting differences, sixteen-year-old Bernardo is over eight feet tall, due to a medical condition, when he leaves the Philippines for the first time to join his mother, step-father, and thirteen-year-old half-sister Andi in London.
Sixteen-year-old Jayme Norton, of Stockton, ran a personal best in the B race in the 300m before narrowly missing out on a medal as a member of the girls' 4x300m relay team.
Sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis wants to become a jazz musician, however, he gets caught up in a scheme with the legendary Fats Waller and troubles commence.
Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper is a product of the rough-and-tumble Lower City.
Sixteen-year-old Justin has always been surrounded by animals.
Because that is what it is all about If a twelve-, fourteen-, or sixteen-year-old girl needs to go to the doctor, who takes her?
Deftly depicting the estranged life of the sixteen-year-old, Secrets carries readers through the gripping story of the young man, his father, and his only friend who has just as deep a secret as himself.
Sixteen-year-old neighbor Rita (Danny Perea) ingratiates her way into the kitchen to bake a cake.
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Paula Carroll has gone through more than any girl should have to.
Zoran Drvenkar's TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE (043972452X, $16.99) tells of sixteen-year-old Alissa and her best friend who set off to the grave of Alissa's father as they've done yearly since he died.
Driving aimlessly around the countryside with her pot-smoking boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel rages against her runaway mother deserting her, the imposition of English assignments by her teacher, and fate in general.
Sixteen-year-old Ilya Kapitannikov, a rising star in the amateur Latin dance competition circuit, died in a tragic car accident in the Catskill Mountains last July.