Sixth Meaning
/sɪksθ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjThe ordinal form of the number six.
nounThe person or thing in the sixth position.
Sentence Examples
This elevator does not go above the sixth floor.
The office has been transferred up to the sixth floor.
It's on the sixth floor—let's take the lift.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He was the ____ person in line, after five people had already entered.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He finished in ____ place, just missing out on a medal in the final race.
Word Origin & History
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had made : and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the moꝛning were the ſixth day."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:31:
"Dr. Ridpath, in his usual happy manner, thanked the Executive Committee and the various members of the Association who had so earnestly cooperated with him in the work of the Sixth Annual Meeting now drawing to a close."
— 1892, Western Association of Writers, Sayings and Doings of the Sixth General Meeting, Jones Brothers Publishing Company, pages 271–272:
"[T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon."
— 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:
"On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case."
— 2007 August 21, Kareem Fahim, “Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2019:
"As this sixth edition is published in 2011, it is exactly 25 years since the publication of the first edition in 1986. That, in itself, is a very sobering thought, for all kinds of reasons."
— 2011 February 25, Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Sixth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, Guilford Press, page xi:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He was the ____ person in line, after five people had already entered.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He finished in ____ place, just missing out on a medal in the final race.