English Explanatory Dictionary

six

English dictionary entry

Meanings

num
  1. A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).
noun
  1. A group or set with six elements.
  2. The digit or figure 6.
  3. A playing card featuring six pips.
  4. Six o'clock.
  5. Rear, behind (rear side of something).
  6. An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
  7. A touchdown.
  8. A bathroom or toilet.
  9. Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
name
  1. Abbreviation of MI6 (intelligence service).
  2. A surname.

Pronunciation

/sɪks/ sĭks en-us-six.ogg en-au-six.ogg

Word forms

six sixes

Etymology

PIE word *swéḱs From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.

Synonyms

6 MI6

Related words

sixth 6 陸 陆 六 Ⅵ VI στ΄ ϛ΄ Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Derived words

pick six all sixes and nines all sixes and sevens at six and seven big six deep-six double-six drive a coach and six through eighty-six five-six grade six half-past-six have got someone's six have someone's six hit a six hit it for six hit on all six it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six king of six knock someone for six Meal Team Six nine-nine-six number six pick-six Schläfli double six six-ace flat six and two threes Six Bells six bob a day tourist Six Counties six-coupled sixel Sixer sixes and nines six-figure six figures sixfold six foot six-footedness six-footer sixgill six-gun Six Hills sixie sixies sixish six-legged six-leggedness six-lined racerunner sixling six-man football Six Mile Six Mile Bottom Six Mile Swamp sixmo sixmonth six-month club Six Nations of the Grand River sixness six o'clock swill
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