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sexte

sexte is the alternative form of sext.

Meaning of sext

Noun (1)

sext (plural sexts)

  1. (historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
    Synonyms:
    midday, noontide, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridian, meridiem, nones, noon
  2. The service appointed for this hour.
  3. A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
  4. (obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

Noun (2)

sext (plural sexts)

  1. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
    • Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, page 37

See all 6 meanings of sext

Forms of sexte

pluralsextes

Questions about sexte

What is sexte the alternative form of?
Sexte is the alternative form of sext.

Words near sexte in the dictionary

  1. sextastic
  2. sextate
  3. sextated
  4. sextates
  5. sextating
  6. sexte
  7. sexted
  8. sextee
  9. sextees
  10. sextennial
  11. sextennially

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sexte (page history and authors); sext (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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