Dictionary Definition
six adj : denoting a quantity consisting of six
items or units [syn: 6, vi, half dozen,
half a
dozen] n : the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
[syn: 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain
Hicks, half a
dozen, sextet,
sestet, sextuplet, hexad]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
siexPronunciation
- /ˈsɪks/, /"sIks/
Cardinal number
sixDerived terms
- six-figure
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
- six-pack, six pack, sixpack
- six-shooter, sixshooter
- sixteen
- sixth
- sixty
- six ways to Sunday
- trreq Tamil: (numeral: ௬)
- trreq Telugu: (numeral: ౬)
- trreq Thai: (numeral: )
- trreq Tibetan: (numeral: ༦)
Translations
cardinal number
- Albanian: gjashtë
- American Sign Language: * trreq Amharic: (numeral: ፮)
- Arabic: (sítta) (numeral: )
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: վեց (vets)
- Aymara: suxta
- Basque: sei
- trreq Bengali: (numeral: ৬)
- Bosnian: šest
- Breton: c'hwec'h
- trreq Burmese: (numeral: ၆)
- Catalan: sis
- Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵ (sudali)
- Chinese:
- Cornish: whegh
- Corsican: sei
- Crimean Tatar: altı
- Czech: šest
- Danish: seks
- Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i
- Dutch: zes
- Erzya: кото (koto)
- Esperanto: ses
- Estonian: kuus
- Faroese: seks
- Finnish: kuusi
- French: six
- Galician: seis
- Garífuna: sisi
- Georgian: ექვსი (ek‘vsi)
- German: sechs
- Greek: έξι (éksi)
- Guaraní: poteĩ
- Gujarati: છ (cha) (numeral: ૬)
- Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ (shesh) (used in counting), שִׁשָּׁה (shisha)
- Hindi: छह (numeral: ६)
- Hungarian: hat
- Icelandic: sex
- Ido: sis
- Indonesian: enam
- Interlingua: sex
- Irish: sé
- Italian: sei
- Japanese: 六 (ろく, rokú), むっつ (muttsú)
- Kalaallisut: arfinillit
- trreq Kannada: (numeral: ೬)
- Karelian: kuusi
- Khmer: (pram muoy) (numeral: )
- Komi: квайт (kvajt)
- Korean: 여섯 (yeoseot), 육 (yuk) / 륙 (ryuk)
- Kurdish: şeş,
- trreq Lao: (numeral: )
- Latin: sex (indecl)
- Latvian: seši , sešas
- Lithuanian: šeši, šešios
- Livonian: kūž
- Lojban: xa
- Malagasy: enina
- trreq Malayalam: (numeral: ൬)
- Maltese: sitta
- Manchu: ninggun
- Manx: shey
- Maori: ono
- Mapudungun: kayu
- Marathi: सहा (sahā)
- Mari: кудыт (kudyt)
- Maricopa: xamxukk
- Marshallese: jiljino
- trreq Mongolian: (numeral: ᠖)
- Nahuatl: chicuace
- Norwegian: seks
- Novial: six
- O'odham: cudp
- Old English: siex
- trreq Oriya: (numeral: ୬)
- Persian: (šeš) (numeral: )
- Polish: sześć
- Portuguese: seis
- Punjabi: ਛੇ (che) (numeral: ੬)
- Rohingya: só
- Romanian: şase
- Romany: shōv
- Russian: шесть (šest’)
- Saami: guhtta
- Sanskrit: षष् (sás), षण् , shasta- (prefix)
- Sardinian: ses
- Serbian: шест (šest)
- Sindhi: (chahah)
- Sinhala: හය (haya)
- Slovak: šesť
- Slovene: šest
- Spanish: seis
- Swahili: sita
- Swedish: sex
- Tagalog: anim
- Tatar: алты, altı
- Telugu: ఆరు
- Thai: (hòk)
- Tok Pisin: sikispela
- Turkish: altı
- Tzutujil: uaki
- Ukrainian: шість (šіst’), шестеро (šéstero) collective
- Veps: kuź
- Volapük: mäl
- Votic: kuuz / кууз
- Võro: kuuś
- Welsh: chwech
- West Frisian: seis
- Yiddish: זעקס (zeks)
set or group with six components
- Lithuanian: šešeri, šešerios
Derived terms
Translations
digit
- Danish: sekstal
- Finnish: kuutonen
- Lithuanian: šešetas
- Polish: szóstka
- Swedish: sexa
cricket
military slang
- ttbc French: six
- ttbc German: Sechs
- ttbc Italian: sei
- ttbc Portuguese: seis (1)
- ttbc Romanian: şase
- ttbc Sindhi: (1), (2)
- ttbc Ukrainian: шістка (šístka)
- ttbc Welsh: chwech
See also
- 6 qualifier Arabic numeral
- 陸, 六 qualifier Chinese numerals
- Ⅵ or VI qualifier Roman numeral
French
Pronunciation
Etymology
Latin sexCardinal numeral
six- six
- Ordinal: sixième
Related terms
Extensive Definition
6 and six may mean:
- 6 (number), a number, numeral, and glyph
- 6, the year 6 AD
- 6 BC, the year 6 BC
In a name:
In music and film:
- Six (album) is a music album by British rock group Mansun
- Six (Soft Machine album) is a music album by British rock group Soft Machine
- 6 (album) is a music album by Hungarian progressive rock group After Crying
- Six (band) was a band created by the Irish version of the talent show Popstars
- Six, a title of a song performed by the metal band All That Remains, featured as a playable song on the Playstation 2 and Xbox 360 video game Guitar Hero II
- "Six", a song by Chimaira from their 2007 album Resurrection
In literature:
- Six, a breed of superhumans in Philip K. Dick's novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
- Six, a witch woman in Terry Goodkind's novel Phantom
In sports:
- Six (cricket), a boundary shot in cricket; where the batsman hits the ball over the boundary without the ball touching the ground (analogous with an automatic home run in baseball)
In television:
- Six, a character on the television series Blossom
- Six, a character on the television series Tripping the Rift
- Number Six (Battlestar Galactica), a character on the television series Battlestar Galactica
- Number Six (The Prisoner), lead character from the television series The Prisoner.
- Six degrees of Kevin Bacon
In Military:
- six, The six o'clock position of an airplane, behind the airplane's tail
In organizations:
- MI6, United Kingdom external security agency
six in German: Six
six in Japanese: シックス
six in Turkish: Altı