- 6
- There are six cookies left.
- six of Sweden’s top financial experts
- Ten people were invited but only six turned up.
- Can you lend me six dollars?
- a six-month contract
- Look at page six.
- Six and four is ten.
- Three sixes are eighteen.
- I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six?
- The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes (= groups of four or six).
- We moved to America when I was six (= six years old).
- Shall we meet at six (= at six o'clock), then?
- noun (in cricket) a hit that scores six runs (= points)Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
Word OriginOld English siex, six, syx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex.
Idioms
See six in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee six in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishat sixes and sevens
- (informal) in a confused state; not well organized
- I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
be six feet under
- (informal) to be dead and buried in the ground
hit/knock somebody for six
- (British English) to affect somebody very deeply
- The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six.
it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other
- (saying) used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choicesTopics Preferences and decisionsc2
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