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sixth

sixth

384 1.0
Number six in order after the fifth
  • adjective
  • /sɪksθ/
translation icon : sexto
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Top of the sixth, and rookie sensation Ricky Vaughn on to pitch now.

  • The Chicago Bulls have won their sixth NBA championship.

  • James Hunt rejoins the race in sixth position.

  • James, the average high school graduate reads at a sixth-grade level.

  • During the students' sixth through eighth grade years, the mentors followed a teaching role.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Others chose the lesson plan they thought would be most enjoyable to the sixth-graders.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Participants in the study were 85 sixth-grade students, 39 boys and 44 girls, at an urban middle school.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The marathon runner finished in sixth place, just missing the podium.

  • My birthday is on the sixth of December, which is always a festive time.

  • Her sixth novel was a bestseller, reflecting her growth as an author.

Compounds

17 7.6

A natural feeling that tells you things without using sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste

7 1.0

One of six equal parts of a whole

1 6.7

A student aged 16 to 18 in the final years of a British secondary school

sixth cranial nerve
  • Specialized
7.0

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

sixth positive

Morphology

sixth = six (transparent) = six + th

Formed by the productive ordinal/fractional suffix '-th' on the numeral 'six', which B1 learners can readily interpret.

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'.