sixth
Noun · AdjectiveUS[siksth]/sɪksθ/1 syllable
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Adjective (1)
Noun (3)
- position six in a countable series of thingsType of rank
- one part in six equal partsSynonyms: one-sixthType of common fraction, simple fraction
- the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from itType of interval, musical interval
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Translations
Adjective ordinal form of the number six
- Spanish
- sexto
- French
- sixième
- German
- sechste
- Italian
- sesto
- Portuguese
- sexto
- Turkish
- altıncı
- Russian
- шесто́й šestój
- Arabic
- سَادِس sādis
- Chinese
- 第六 dìliù
- Japanese
- 六番目 rokuban-me
35 more languages
- Dutch
- zesde
- Polish
- szósty
- Swedish
- sjätte
- Greek
- έκτος éktos
- Korean
- 여섯째 yeoseotjjae
- Indonesian
- keenam
- Vietnamese
- thứ sáu
- Hungarian
- hatodik
- Portuguese (PT)
- sexto
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 第六 dìliù
- Albanian
- i gjashtë
- Breton
- c'hwec'hvet
- Catalan
- sisè
- Czech
- šestý
- Danish
- sjette
- Esperanto
- sesa
- Estonian
- kuues
- Finnish
- kuudes
- Georgian
- მეექვსე meekvse
- Hebrew
- שישי shishi
- Icelandic
- sjötti
- Kurdish
- şeşem
- Latvian
- sestais
- Lithuanian
- šeštas
- Malagasy
- fahenina
- Norwegian
- sjette
- Romanian
- al șaselea
- Scottish Gaelic
- siathamh
- Serbo-Croatian
- šesti
- Slovak
- šiesty
- Slovenian
- šesti
- Swahili
- ya sita
- Walloon
- shijhinme
- Welsh
- chweched
- Yiddish
- זעקסט zekst
Noun one of six equal parts of a whole
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Sixth adjective
Origin: From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.
1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixth noun
1. The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
2. The next in order after the fifth.
3. Music The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54