six
six Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Amounting to one more than five in number.
"The committee consists of six members appointed by the board."
• noun
The cardinal number equivalent to the sum of five and one; the numeral 6 or VI.
"Six is the smallest positive integer that is neither a square number nor a prime number."
A playing card, die face, or domino marked with six spots or pips.
"She rolled a double six on her first turn of the board game."
British A hit in cricket that reaches the boundary without touching the ground, scoring six runs for the batting side.
"The batter launched the final delivery over the ropes for a towering six to win the match."
• pronoun
Six people or things considered together as a group or subset.
"Ten applicants were interviewed for the fellowship, and six were selected for the final round."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English siex, derived from Proto-Germanic *sehs and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *sweks (cognate with Latin sex, Ancient Greek hex, and Sanskrit ṣáṣ).
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