sweet sixteen
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A girl's sixteenth birthday, or sixteenth-birthday party and a related coming of age party.
American usage; Informal
noun
name
The sixteen teams participating in the regional semifinals of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion.
American usage; Informal
name
The round of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament where all but 16 teams have been eliminated.
American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "But one tradition associated with the age hangs on: the Sweet Sixteen celebration. Symptomatic of at least a partial swing away from counterculture sentiments, the Sweet Sixteen party—relatively dormant during the anti‐Establishment turmoil of the late 60's and early 70's—is becoming popular again as a way of marking the 16th birthday."
- "The new coach has just led the Nimrods to their first Sweet Sixteen."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.