What does "six" mean?
A group or set with six elements.
Six
/sɪks/ name, noun, num, slang
name, noun, num, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A group or set with six elements.
- Grammar: six is listed as name, noun, num, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: 6, 6, bathroom, captain hicks.
- Useful contrasts: five, non six, not six.
- Usage evidence: At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A group or set with six elements.
- 2 a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips wordnet
- 3 The digit or figure 6.
"how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif"."
- 4 the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one wordnet
- 5 A playing card featuring six pips.
Show 6 more definitions
- 6 Six o'clock.
"In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work."
- 7 Rear, behind (rear side of something). slang
"cover my six"
- 8 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.
"His century featured 12 sixes."
- 9 A touchdown.
- 10 A bathroom or toilet. North-Wales
- 11 Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel. obsolete
Adjective
- 1 being one more than five wordnet
Numeral
- 1 A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).
"Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported."
Proper Noun
- 1 Abbreviation of MI6 (intelligence service). UK, abbreviation, alt-of
- 2 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "six"?
Common synonyms include: 6, 6, bathroom, captain hicks, group of six, half a dozen.
How do you use "six" in a sentence?
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
How do you pronounce "six"?
Pronounced /sɪks/.
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.