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sixth

Pronunciation: /sɪksθ/

The English word “sixth” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  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.

Etymology

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

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