Sixth Definition

sĭksth
noun
The one following the fifth.
Webster's New World
The ordinal number matching the number six in a series.
American Heritage
Any of the six equal parts of something;16
Webster's New World
An interval of six degrees in a diatonic scale.
American Heritage
The interval between two such tones, or a combination of them.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Preceded by five others in a series; 6th.
Webster's New World
Designating any of the six equal parts of something.
Webster's New World

The ordinal form of the number six.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adverb
In the sixth place, rank, group, etc.
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Other Word Forms of Sixth

Noun

Singular:
sixth
Plural:
sixths

Sixth Sentence Examples

  • Pierre was the sixth to enter.

  • He was freely used by Livy in part of his work (from the sixth book onwards).

  • The afternoon sun was high in the sky, baking the revelers in summer warmth as they clustered around the intersection of Sixth and Main Street, the site of the infamous water fight.

  • Alexander's eldest son (Alexander, sixth of Merchiston) was born in 1513, and fell at the battle of Pinkie in 1547.

  • It is certain that the first four volumes were written if not printed before that method was promulgated, and when the fame of Linnaeus as a zoologist rested on little more than the very meagre sixth edition of the Systema Naturae and the first edition of his Fauna Suecica.

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SSISIX

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