What does sixth mean?
Definitions for sixth
sɪksθsixth
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sixth.
Princeton's WordNet
sixthnoun
position six in a countable series of things
one-sixth, sixthnoun
one part in six equal parts
sixthadjective
the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
sixth, 6thadjective
coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
Wiktionary
sixthnoun
The person or thing in the sixth position.
sixthnoun
One of six equal parts of a whole.
sixthnoun
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. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)
sixthadjective
The ordinal form of the number six.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sixthadjective
The first after the fifth; the ordinal of six.
Etymology: sixta , Saxon.
You are more clement than vile men,
Who of their broken debtors take
A sixth, letting them thrive again. William Shakespeare.There succeeded to the kingdom of England James the sixth, then king of Scotland. Francis Bacon.
Sixthnoun
A sixth part.
Etymology: from the adjective.
Only the other half would have been a tolerable seat for rational creatures, and five sixths of the whole globe would have been rendered useless. George Cheyne, Philos. Principles.
Wikipedia
Sixth
Sixth is the ordinal form of the number six. The Sixth Amendment, to the U.S. Constitution A keg of beer, equal to 5 U.S. gallons or 1⁄6 barrel The fraction 1⁄6
ChatGPT
sixth
Sixth generally refers to something that is preceded by five other things in order, position, time, quantity, or quality. It is an ordinal number and can pertain to an individual or thing coming directly after the fifth and just before the seventh in position. Furthermore, in mathematics, sixth may refer to one of six equal parts of a whole.
Webster Dictionary
Sixthadjective
first after the fifth; next in order after the fifth
Sixthadjective
constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided
Sixthnoun
the quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole
Sixthnoun
the next in order after the fifth
Sixthnoun
the interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale
Etymology: [From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sixth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4157
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sixth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1638
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sixth in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sixth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of sixth in a Sentence
I'll let them tell you, it's something very childish that sixth graders could have talked about and it had no reason happening. If they want to tell you what happened, they can tell you what happened, but I told them I wouldn't say anything about it, so I'll keep it there.
Five people suffered light injuries, while the sixth was more serious.
I was raised in polygamy. I was born to Heidi and John Daniel. Heidi is John Daniel’s sixth wife out of 14 wives. My lifestyle growing up was kind of like she was just a single mom. My dad was the disciplinarian, it was a pretty abusive environment, primarily physical abuse from my dad, and then there was also sexual abuse within the group from children to children—the older children to younger children.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee:
Santorum won. He was in … sixth place out of the seven candidates, five days out from the caucuses.
I think he caught it on a chair, it was pretty swollen yesterday, so we sent him for X-rays last night and got them back about the sixth inning.
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- sesdeAfrikaans
- سادسArabic
- altıncıAzerbaijani
- шостыBelarusian
- шестиBulgarian
- ষষ্ঠBengali
- c'hwec'hvetBreton
- sexta, sext, sisèCatalan, Valencian
- šestýCzech
- chwechedWelsh
- sjettedel, sjetteDanish
- Sechster, sechste, Sechstel, SexteGerman
- έκτοςGreek
- sesa, sesonoEsperanto
- sextoSpanish
- kuuesEstonian
- seigarrenBasque
- ششمPersian
- kuudes, kuudennes, kuudesosa, sekstiFinnish
- sættingur, sættiFaroese
- sixièmeFrench
- seisde, sechsteWestern Frisian
- séúIrish
- siathamhScottish Gaelic
- sextoGalician
- sheyooManx
- שישיHebrew
- छठवांHindi
- hatodikHungarian
- վեցերորդArmenian
- sexte, sexta, sextoInterlingua
- keenamIndonesian
- sisesmaIdo
- sjöttiIcelandic
- sesto, sestaItalian
- 六番目Japanese
- მეექვსეGeorgian
- алтыншыKazakh
- ទីប្រាំមួយKhmer
- 여섯째Korean
- شهشهمKurdish
- алтынчыKyrgyz
- sextusLatin
- ທີ່ຫົກLao
- šeštas, šešta, šeštadalisLithuanian
- sestā, sestais, sestā daļaLatvian
- шестиMacedonian
- зургадугаарMongolian
- keenamMalay
- is-sittMaltese
- ဆဌမBurmese
- seksdel, sjettedelNorwegian
- zesdeDutch
- sjettedel, seksdelNorwegian Nynorsk
- sjetteNorwegian
- hastą́ą́ góneʼNavajo, Navaho
- szósty, sekstaPolish
- sexto, sextaPortuguese
- cea a șasea, șesime, șaselea, șasea, cel al șaseleaRomanian
- шестойRussian
- षष्ठSanskrit
- шести, šestiSerbo-Croatian
- හයවෙනිSinhala, Sinhalese
- šiestySlovak
- seksta, šesti, šestínaSlovene
- gjashtëAlbanian
- sexa, sjätte, sjättedelSwedish
- ya sitaSwahili
- шашумTajik
- ที่หกThai
- altynjyTurkmen
- ikaanimTagalog
- altıncıTurkish
- алтынчыTatar
- шостийUkrainian
- چھٹواںUrdu
- oltinchiUzbek
- thứ sáuVietnamese
- mälidVolapük
- זעקסטYiddish
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