English Explanatory Dictionary

sixth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. The ordinal form of the number six.
noun
  1. The person or thing in the sixth position.
  2. One of six equal parts of a whole.
  3. 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.
verb
  1. To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six.

Pronunciation

/sɪksθ/ [sɪkθ] [sɪk(s)t̪] [sɪks] en-us-6th.ogg en-us-sixth.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Sixth.wav

Word forms

sixth sixt sixths sixthing sixthed

Etymology

From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).

Synonyms

6th mul:VI VIth mul:⅙

Derived words

Revenge of the Sixth one sixth one-sixth sixtel sixth column sixth cousin sixth cranial nerve sixth disease sixth form sixth form college sixth-former sixth grade sixth grader sixthhand sixthly sixth man sixth-rate sixth rate sixth sense sixth wall two hundred fifty-sixth note augmented sixth augmented sixth chord Australian sixth diminished sixth French augmented sixth chord French sixth German augmented sixth chord German sixth Italian augmented sixth chord Italian sixth Japanese sixth lower sixth major sixth minor sixth upper sixth
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