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Definitions for Six

[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.
[8] amounting to six in number.
[9] at sixes and sevens , in disorder or confusion. in disagreement or dispute.
[10] the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one See also number (def. 1)
[11] a numeral, 6, VI, etc, representing this number
[12] something representing, represented by, or consisting of six units, such as a playing card with six symbols on it
[13] Also called: six o'clock six hours after noon or midnight
[14] Also called: sixer cricket a stroke in which the ball crosses the boundary without bouncing the six runs scored for such a stroke
[15] a division of a Brownie Guide or Cub Scout pack
[16] at sixes and sevens in disagreement in a state of confusion
[17] knock someone for six informal to upset or overwhelm someone completely; stun
[18] six of one and half a dozen of the other or six and two threes a situation in which the alternatives are considered equivalent
[19] amounting to six six nations (as pronoun ) set the table for six
[20] Les Six (le ) a group of six young composers in France, who from about 1916 formed a temporary association as a result of interest in neoclassicism and in the music of Satie and the poetry of Cocteau. Its members were Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre

Words related to Six

semester, hexad, sextet, hexagram, hexagon, sextuplet, hexagonal, semestral, senary, sextuple

Words nearby Six

sivapithecus, sivas, sivash sea, siwalik hills, siwash, six, six characters in search of an author, six counties, six day war, six feet under, six nations

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

Other words from Six

Related prefixes: hexa-, sex-

Word origin for Six

Old English siex; related to Old Norse sex, Gothic saihs, Old High German sehs, Latin sex, Greek hex, Sanskrit sastha

Synonyms for Six

hexadic, hexagonal, semestral, senary, sextuple