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six
/sɪks/
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What does six mean?
numeral
- A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).
noun
- A group or set with six elements.
- The digit or figure 6.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A playing card featuring six pips.
- A person who is six years old.
- Six o'clock.
- (slang) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
- An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
- A touchdown.
- A bathroom or toilet.
- (obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
proper noun
- Abbreviation of MI6 (intelligence service).
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/sɪks/
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Kantos Kan thought that the docks there, in addition to their regular work, would accommodate at least six battleships at a time.
Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man’s thumb.
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At this point the excavation exhibited a depth of six and a half feet and the work of the masonry was begun.
I pray you, bear witness that me have stay six or seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.
In reality, “these two or three millions” were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or forty thousand francs.