six
- adjective
- /sɪks/
:
seis
- There are six apples on the table waiting to be eaten.
My goodness, those first six weeks were horrible.
- My goodness, those first six weeks were horrible.
- So I have to wait six weeks, six weeks, six weeks.
- I think any less than six weeks is a bad idea.
- Trump is acting like a six year old with a tantrum.
- They were the books about the the six children.
- Yet we have these studies that happen within six months, a year.
- And then I wrote am I with six seven question marks?
- OK, I once worked at a six person company.
- This was like, I would say, six months to a year baby.
- For all of these tools, it takes about six weeks and.
- So instead of getting house arrest, he gets six years, right?
Examples
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The box measures six inches long and four inches wide.
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He made what some describe as a six hour speech.
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So I had to do a kind of six week fast track.
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The physics of progress is a six step circle.
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No one wants a six, you know, a six inch drill bit.
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So now my floor can be can be six across using planks.
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She scored a six on the quiz, which made her very happy.
Synonyms
35
1.0
The Roman numeral for the number six
30
1.0
Six things or people that form a group
Idioms
- Informal
5
7.7
No longer alive and buried in the ground, or completely covered by something like water
Two choices that are almost the same and make no real difference
Compounds
3
5.8
A war in June 1967 that lasted six days between Israel and nearby Arab countries and changed the region
1
5.7
A short war in June 1967 between Israel and nearby Arab countries that changed control of land
An annual rugby tournament between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales
A fast lizard with six light stripes along its body that lives in eastern and central United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Six used as an adjective means 'one more than five' and comes from the same old English root seox, so it just describes a group or amount of six things.