six foot
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- adjective
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de seis pies de altura
- Vario is a large man, standing six feet tall and weighing over 240 pounds.
- six feet tall
- six feet high
- six feet in height
Like I just said you are a six foot male.
- Like I just said you are a six foot male.
- Everywhere we look at him he looks like a six foot tall Band-Aid.
- I posted a clip of when Frankie said that, you know, a six foot, one gay man, sort of tall guy.
Examples
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You're six feet tall.
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They must be six feet tall.
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I love you, because... you are six feet, man, with extremely long arms, you know?
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About six feet tall, really good shape, 40s.
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You'll be charming, strong and six foot two.
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Described as a white male, twenty to thirty, long black hair, six foot, one fifty to one seventy, old blue jeans, a red parka, sunglasses.
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Between the seventh and eighth centuries, a six-foot-high sand layer gathered, so it was easy for Tebtunis's inhabitants.
Academic text (2007) -
Six-foot-three, 230 pounds.
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He is a six-foot basketball player who dominates on the court.
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The new employee is six feet tall, making him easy to spot in a crowd.
Synonyms
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Higher than most people or things of the same kind
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'measuring six feet tall' is directly and compositionally derived from 'six' (a numeral) + 'foot' (a unit of length); numeral + measure constructions transparently indicate size/height. Although English uses the singular attributive form ('six-foot'), this is a predictable morphosyntactic pattern and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Six foot comes from the simple idea of using a 'foot' as a unit to measure height; if a person's height reaches six foot, you can picture six of those feet one above the other, so the person is tall. So six foot means 'measuring six feet in height'.