What does sixth mean?
Definitions for sixth
sɪksθsixth
Here are all the possible meanings 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
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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Rank popularity for the word 'sixth' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4157
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Rank popularity for the word 'sixth' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1638
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
On the (par-three) sixth tee, everybody stuffed it in there (close to the hole), as the three pros were walking off the tee, Tiger said: 'Let's all walk off the greens with twos.'.
As someone who used to look at this phenomenon of radicalization more on the international terrorism side, and looking at how people were similarly radicalized or mobilized to violence just like what happened on the sixth, from the al Qaeda ideology and the ISIS ideology, there are a lot of parallels to that world.
Anybody who comes up to me whether it's a current supporter or someone new signing on, or even undecided voters, said how important the debate was. i think anybody could wind up from second to sixth in this thing and not be shocked.
More than 600 people have now lost their life on the Mediterranean Sea this year, if current trends continue, we are likely to see more than a thousand people lose their life on the Mediterranean for the sixth year in a row, which is a bleak milestone for us to be reaching.
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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- 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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