sixth

[ siksth ]

/ sɪksθ /

adjective

next after the fifth; being the ordinal number for six.

being one of six equal parts.

noun

a sixth part, especially of one (1/6).

the sixth member of a series.

Music.

a tone on the sixth degree from a given tone (counted as a first).
the interval between such tones.
the harmonic combination of such tones.

adverb

in the sixth place; sixthly.

Origin of sixth

before 900; six + -th²; replacing sixt, Middle English sixte, Old English sixta

Related formssixth·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for sixth

This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.
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Rick would cut together five years worth of work, add the sixth, then recut six years worth of work, add the seventh, and so on.
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We are currently in the sixth, which is predicted to be the worst, and, to make matters worse, we are the cause.
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Instead of our sixth iPhone we suddenly start thinking about our first Jitterbug.
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“The night he sold The Sixth Sense to Disney, we were all together for dinner in LA,” Nagrani recalls.
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On the morning of the sixth, they entered the river, and the same evening reached London.
Self-control|Mary Brunton
At all events it seems to me quite incredible that Gaelic was not introduced into Scotland before the sixth century.
The Heroic Age|H. Munro Chadwick
That keeps him going—that, and a trophy he once achieved by winning the beaten eight division of the sixth sixteen.
Penguin Persons & Peppermints|Walter Prichard Eaton
Yes, sir; we laid floor on the fifth and then we were on the sixth when this happened.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
This was the sixth afternoon that he had spent on this enslaved world.
Hunters Out of Space|Joseph Everidge Kelleam

British Dictionary definitions for sixth

sixth

/ (sɪksθ) /

adjective

(usually prenominal)

coming after the fifth and before the seventh in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of six: often written 6th
(as noun)the sixth to go

noun

one of six equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, measurement, etc
(as modifier)a sixth part

the fraction equal to one divided by six (1/6)

music

the interval between one note and another note six notes away from it counting inclusively along the diatonic scale
one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the otherSee also major (def. 14), minor (def. 4), interval (def. 5)
short for sixth chord

adverb

Also: sixthly after the fifth person, position, etc

sentence connector

Also: sixthly as the sixth point: linking what follows to the previous statements

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Word Origin and History for sixth

sixth

adj.

1520s, replacing Middle English sixte (c.1200), from Old English syxte, from siex (see six). Cf. Old Frisian sexta, Middle Dutch seste, Old High German sehsto, German sechste, Gothic saihsta. With ending conformed to -th (1). Related: Sixthly. The noun meaning "a sixth part" is from 1550s. As a music tone, from 1590s. Sixth sense "supernatural perception of objects" is attested from 1712; earlier it meant "titillation, the sense that apprehends sexual pleasure" (1690s, from Scaliger).

Then said Peter, That is false; for there is a sixth Sense, that of Prescience : for the other five Senses are capable only of Knowledg ; but the Sixth of Foreknowledg ; which Sense the Prophets had. [William Whitson, "Primitive Christianity Reviv'd," vol. V, London, 1712]

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