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sixfold

sixfold adjective: having six times as much or as many.

Adjective

sixfold (not comparable)

  1. Having six times as much or as many.
  2. Having six component parts.
    • The method is sixfold, and I will tell you what the six steps you must take are.

Adverb

sixfold (not comparable)

  1. Times six, multiplied by six.
    • I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with.
      1885, Alexander Campbell, Speeches on Divers Occasions, page 101, "[He] would state that in [1842, there were] 3,448 letters ... received, and in 1865 [that total was] 18,222, or nearly sixfold more.

sixfold meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

sixfold in Hindi

sixfold, sextuply
छहगुना chahgunā

sixfold in Tamil

அறுமடி

sixfold in Urdu

sixfold, sextuple
چھ گنا cha-gunā

sixfold in Telugu

having six component parts
ఆరింతలు ārintalu
More languagesFewer languages
sixfold in Arabic
سُدَاسِيّ sudāsiyy
sixfold in Persian
ششگانه šešgâne

Origin of sixfold

From Middle English sexfold, from Old English sixfeald. Equivalent to six + -fold.

Words formed from sixfold

Questions about sixfold

What does sixfold mean?
Sixfold means having six times as much or as many.
What is sixfold in Hindi?
Sixfold in Hindi is छहगुना (chahgunā). See Sixfold meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sixfold?
Sixfold can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near sixfold in the dictionary

  1. sixers
  2. sixes
  3. sixes and nines
  4. sixfoil
  5. sixfoils
  6. sixfold
  7. sixfoldness
  8. sixgill
  9. sixgill shark
  10. sixgill sharks
  11. sixgills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sixfold (page history and authors); छहगुना (Hindi) (page history and authors); sixfold (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چھ گنا (Urdu) (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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