sixth

Examples

• All

• The former Soviet Union covered a sixth of the Earth's land surface.

  Academic text (1997)

• The Guadalupe River project will use about one-sixth of the unused water rights in that basin.

  Academic text (2004)

• You said he owns a sixth of it.

  This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

• About a sixth of a mile?

  Fallen (1998)

• Almost everyone in the sample had been arrested, placed in jail, and over one sixth had been to prison.

  Academic text (2009)

• Lloyd, you drove almost a sixth of the way across the country in the wrong direction.

  Fiction book (1994)

• All of domestic discretionary spending makes up about one-sixth of the budget.

  Academic text (1995)

• The monument includes the main channel of Redwood Creek and drains one-sixth of its basin.

  Academic text (1994)

• He owns a sixth of the shares in the company.

• Approximately one sixth of the cake was left after the party.

Synonyms

O

one-sixth

vssixth

7 1.0

One of six equal parts of a whole

means the same but is written as a single word

Compounds

S

sixth sense

17 7.6

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

O

one-sixth

7 1.0

One of six equal parts of a whole

S

sixth-former

• UK

1 6.7

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

S

sixth cranial nerve

• Specialized

7.0

A part of the body that controls an eye muscle to move the eye outward

S

Sixth Crusade

9.9

A Crusade in 1228 and 1229 when Emperor Frederick II got control of Jerusalem by talks not fighting

How Much

half

∞ 1.0

third

605 1.0

to quarter

5 2.1

fifth

30 1.0

sixth

13 1.0

seventh

22 1.0

eighth

36 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology