sixth
/sɪksθ/
sixth adjective: the ordinal form of the number six.
Adjective
sixth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number six.
- And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had made : and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the moꝛning were the ſixth day.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:31
- Dr. Ridpath, in his usual happy manner, thanked the Executive Committee and the various members of the Association who had so earnestly cooperated with him in the work of the Sixth Annual Meeting now drawing to a close.1892, Western Association of Writers, Sayings and Doings of the Sixth General Meeting, Jones Brothers Publishing Company, pages 271–272
Noun
sixth (plural sixths)
- The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
- On the moon, however the weight of a pound-mass (lb or lbm) is only about one sixth of a pound-force (lbf).2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com
- The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
Verb
sixth (third-person singular simple present sixths, present participle sixthing, simple past and past participle sixthed)
- To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six.
- Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N − a²) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,1993, Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments, page 102
sixth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sixth in Hindi
- ordinal form of the number six — see also 6th
- छठवां chaṭhvā̃, षष्ठ ṣaṣṭh, छठा chaṭhā
- person or thing in sixth place
- छठा chaṭhā
sixth in Tamil
- ordinal form of the number six — see also 6th
- ஆறாம் āṟām, ஆறாவது āṟāvatu
sixth in Marathi
- सहावे, सहावा
sixth in Urdu
- ordinal form of the number six — see also 6th
- چھٹواں chaṭhvā̃
More languagesFewer languages
- sixth in Bengali
- ষষ্ঠ śośṭho
- sixth in Telugu
- ఆరవ ārava, షష్ఠము ṣaṣṭhamu, ఆరవది āravadi
- sixth in Malayalam
- ആറാം āṟāṁ, ആറാമത്തെ āṟāmatte
- sixth in Kannada
- ಆರನೇ āranē
- sixth in Punjabi
- ਛੇਵਾਂ chevā̃
- sixth in Gujarati
- છઠ્ઠું chaṭhṭhũ
- sixth in Sanskrit
- षष्ठ ṣaṣṭha
- sixth in Sinhala
- හයවෙනි hayaweni
- sixth in Tagalog
- ikaanim
- sixth in Arabic
- سَادِس sādis, سَادِسَة sādisa, سُدْس suds
- sixth in Malay
- keenam
- sixth in Indonesian
- keenam
- sixth in Persian
- ششم šešom, ششیک šašyak, šešyek, ششک šešak
- sixth in Thai
- ที่หก tîi-hòk
- sixth in Vietnamese
- thứ sáu
- sixth in Myanmar
- ဆဋ္ဌမ hcathta.ma.
Examples of sixth in a sentence
- [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s...
- On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case.2007 August 21, Kareem Fahim, “Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy”, in The New York Times, archived from the...
- As this sixth edition is published in 2011, it is exactly 25 years since the publication of the first edition in 1986.2011 February 25, Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Sixth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, Guilford Press, page xi:
Synonyms of sixth
Forms of sixth
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | sixt |
| Noun | |
| plural | sixths |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sixths |
| present participle | sixthing |
| past participle | sixthed |
| past | sixthed |
Origin of sixth
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
Words formed from sixth
- one sixth
- one-sixth
- sixtel
- sixth column
- sixth columnist
- sixth cousin
- sixth cranial nerve
- sixth disease
- sixth form
- sixth form college
- sixth-former
- sixth grade
- sixth grader
- sixthhand
- sixthly
- sixth man
- sixth-rate
- sixth rate
- sixth sense
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- Revenge of the Sixth
- augmented sixth
- augmented sixth chord
- Australian sixth
- diminished sixth
- French augmented sixth chord
- French sixth
- German augmented sixth chord
- German sixth
- Italian augmented sixth chord
- Italian sixth
- Japanese sixth
- lower sixth
- major sixth
- minor sixth
- upper sixth
Phrases with sixth
Words that rhyme with sixth
Questions about sixth
- What does sixth mean?
- Sixth means the ordinal form of the number six.
- What is sixth in Hindi?
- Sixth in Hindi is छठवां (chaṭhvā̃), षष्ठ (ṣaṣṭh), छठा (chaṭhā). See Sixth meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use sixth in a sentence?
- [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.
- What part of speech is sixth?
- Sixth can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sixth?
- Sixth is pronounced /sɪksθ/.
Words near sixth in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sixth (page history and authors); sixth (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ఆరవ (Telugu) (page history and authors); ਛੇਵਾਂ (Punjabi) (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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