What does sixth mean?

Definitions for sixth
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sixthnoun

    position six in a countable series of things

  2. one-sixth, sixthnoun

    one part in six equal parts

  3. sixthadjective

    the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

  4. sixth, 6thadjective

    coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position

Wiktionary

  1. sixthnoun

    The person or thing in the sixth position.

  2. sixthnoun

    One of six equal parts of a whole.

  3. 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.)

  4. sixthadjective

    The ordinal form of the number six.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Sixthadjective

    first after the fifth; next in order after the fifth

  2. Sixthadjective

    constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided

  3. Sixthnoun

    the quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole

  4. Sixthnoun

    the next in order after the fifth

  5. Sixthnoun

    the interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale

  6. Etymology: [From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sixth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4157

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sixth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1638

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sixth in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sixth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sixth in a Sentence

  1. W. Somerset Maugham:

    The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

  2. Haley Joel Osment:

    Being an actor, you can never count on things being smash successes all the time, i remember having that feeling with The Sixth Sense like, Its not always gonna be like that.

  3. Dick Durbin:

    Well here we are. We are just about at the fifth month in the sixth-month period that he gave us.

  4. Austin Hays:

    We came inside and it became unclear if we were going to finish the game or not, i wasn't sure with more rain coming if I was going to get the opportunity. Although play resumed after a 44-minute delay, not long after that it started raining again. It was coming down hard in the sixth when Hays completed the cycle with a double to center off Steve Cishek. EX-YANKEES PITCHER KYLE FARNSWORTH SHOWS OFF INCREDIBLE BODY TRANSFORMATION Baltimore Orioles' Austin Hays places the home run chain on Anthony Santander, who had hit a home run against the Washington Nationals during the third inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Baltimore. ( AP Photo/Gail Burton).

  5. Jamie Craig:

    We have had tremendous success with our current rhino herd, stella is the sixth youngster from Nancy and Ruby and our bull, Monty, has proved to be an excellent dad.

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