sixth

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position

   She finished in sixth place.

2. 2
   noun

   the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

   She finished in sixth place.

3. 3
   noun

   one part in six equal parts

   She finished in sixth place.

4. 4
   noun

   position six in a countable series of things

   She finished in sixth place.

From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).

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