sixth
- adjective
- /sɪksθ/
- It's the sixth most populous country in the world.
- a sixth-grade class
- a sixth-grader
- sixth-grade students
And so every senior or sixth year student throws a huge prank on the school.
- And so every senior or sixth year student throws a huge prank on the school.
- It's now generally accepted that we are at the beginning of the sixth great mass extinction event.
- Olympia competition for the sixth time, I wanted seven times all together.
- The first one is I've started sixth form and in English I've.
- My, my school, my college sixth form, like the people that knew me, right.
- I just fell into to sixth form, started studying sports and psychology.
Examples
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Top of the sixth, and rookie sensation Ricky Vaughn on to pitch now.
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The Chicago Bulls have won their sixth NBA championship.
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James Hunt rejoins the race in sixth position.
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James, the average high school graduate reads at a sixth-grade level.
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During the students' sixth through eighth grade years, the mentors followed a teaching role.
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Others chose the lesson plan they thought would be most enjoyable to the sixth-graders.
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Participants in the study were 85 sixth-grade students, 39 boys and 44 girls, at an urban middle school.
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The marathon runner finished in sixth place, just missing the podium.
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My birthday is on the sixth of December, which is always a festive time.
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Her sixth novel was a bestseller, reflecting her growth as an author.
Compounds
A natural feeling that tells you things without using sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste
- Specialized
A part of the body that controls an eye muscle to move the eye outward
A Crusade in 1228 and 1229 when Emperor Frederick II got control of Jerusalem by talks not fighting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sixth comes from the number six plus the ending -th that shows order, so it literally means 'number six' or 'coming after the fifth'.