Definitions for Six

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Six six

Spelling: [siks]

IPA: /sɪks/

Six is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in Six (isx).

Definitions for Six

noun

1. a cardinal number, five plus one.
2. a symbol for this number, as 6 or VI.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with six pips.
5. Cricket. a hit in which the ball crosses the boundary line of the field without a bounce, counting six runs for the batsman. Compare boundary (def 3).
6. an automobile powered by a six-cylinder engine.
7. a six-cylinder engine.

Idioms

1. at sixes and sevens, in disorder or confusion. in disagreement or dispute.

adjective

1. amounting to six in number.

Origin of Six

before 900; Middle English six, sex, Old English siex, syx, seox, sex; cognate with Dutch zes, Low German ses, German sechs, Old Norse sex, Gothic saihs, Latin sex, Greek héx, Sanskrit ṣaṣ

Examples for Six

De Lord had been with them in six troubles, and he would not desert them in de seventh.

And six weeks after that I had things in shape so't I was able to leave.

In ten minutes the fund had reached over six hundred dollars.

It was a very faithful homage to a six Million Dollar Man episode.

Andrew and Fergie separated in 1992 after six years of marriage and formally divorced in 1996.

But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.

"six hundred and thirty-five dollars," answered Robert, producing it.

I just recently rewatched all six Star Wars movies the other day… Oh wow, from the beginning?

He's stolen five or six hundred dollars in gold from old Paul Nichols.

Several of them disputed the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust.