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six
[ siks ]
/ sɪks /
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noun
adjective
amounting to six in number.
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Idioms about six
Origin of six
First recorded before 900; Middle English six, sex, Old English siex, syx, seox, sex; cognate with Dutch zes, Low German ses, German sechs, Old Norse sex, Gothic saihs, Latin sex, Greek héx Sanskrit ṣaṭ-
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British Dictionary definitions for six (1 of 2)
six
/ (sɪks) /
noun
determiner
- amounting to sixsix nations
- (as pronoun)set the table for six
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Related prefixes: hexa-, sex-Word Origin for six
Old English siex; related to Old Norse sex, Gothic saihs, Old High German sehs, Latin sex, Greek hex, Sanskrit sastha
British Dictionary definitions for six (2 of 2)
Six
/ (French sis) /
noun
Les Six (le) a group of six young composers in France, who from about 1916 formed a temporary association as a result of interest in neoclassicism and in the music of Satie and the poetry of Cocteau. Its members were Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre
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