Usually means: Ordinal number following fifth position.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word sixth:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sixth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sixth: Merriam-Webster
  3. sixth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sixth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sixth: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sixth, sixth: Wordnik
  7. sixth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sixth: Wiktionary
  9. sixth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sixth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sixth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sixth: Dictionary.com
  13. sixth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sixth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sixth, The Sixth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sixth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sixth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sixth: Rhymezone
  19. sixth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sixth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sixth: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sixth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sixth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sixth: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. sixth: Vocabulary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sixth: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sixth: The Folk File
  2. sixth: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sixthly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  The ordinal form of the number six.
noun:  (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
noun:  One of six equal parts of a whole.
noun:  (music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)
verb:  (rare, informal, nonstandard) To divide by six, which also means multiplying a denominator by six.

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