English Explanatory Dictionary

sixteener

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

sixteener sixteeners

Etymology

From sixteen + -er.

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