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sixth adjective & noun (ordinal numeral).
[Old English si(e)xta etc., repl. in 16 by forms from SIX + -TH2.]
A. adjective. Next in order after the fifth, that is number six in a series, (represented by 6th). OE.
sixth form: in a secondary school for pupils over sixteen; sixth-form college, a college for pupils over sixteen. sixth former a pupil in the sixth form. sixth part arch. = sense B.3 below. sixth sense a supposed faculty giving intuitive or extrasensory knowledge; such knowledge.
Classic CD Prokofiev's sixth opera..did not receive its first production until 1929.
b. noun.
The sixth person or thing of a category, series etc., identified contextually, as a day of the month, (following a proper name) person, esp. monarch or pope, of the specified name, etc. OE.
I. Hay The Head..probably takes the sixth for an hour or two a day.
Music. An interval embracing six consecutive notes in the diatonic scale; a note a sixth above another given note; a chord including two notes a sixth apart, or based around the sixth of a note. LME.
Each of six equal parts into which something is or may be divided, a fraction which when multiplied by six gives one, (= sixth part above). M16.
Listener To surrender voluntarily a sixth of their land for distribution to the poor.
Comb.: Forming compound ordinal numerals with multiples of ten, as forty-sixth (46th), five-thousand-and-sixth (5006th), etc.
sixthly adverb in the sixth place LME.