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sexts

sexts is the plural of sext.

sexts is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Questions about sexts

What is sexts the plural of?
Sexts is the plural of sext.

Words near sexts in the dictionary

  1. sextremist
  2. sextremists
  3. sextries
  4. sextrigintillion
  5. sextry
  6. sexts
  7. sextual
  8. sextually
  9. sextumvirate
  10. sextumvirates
  11. sextuor

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