sixth

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♦♦ sixth /s'ɪksθ/ (sixths)
1 [ORD]
The sixth item in a series is the one that you count as number six.
...the sixth round of the World Cup.
...the sixth of December.
2 [FRACTION]
A sixth is one of six equal parts of something.
The company yesterday shed a sixth of its workforce.
...five-sixths of a mile.sixth form (sixth forms)
also sixth-form
[N-COUNT] usu sing
The sixth form in a British school consists of the classes that pupils go to from 16 to 18 years of age, usually in order to study for A levels.
She was offered her first modelling job while she was still in the sixth-form...sixth for|mer (sixth formers)
also sixth-former
[N-COUNT]
A sixth former is a pupil who is in the sixth form at a British school.sixth sense
[N-SING]
If you say that someone has a sixth sense, you mean that they seem to have a natural ability to know about things before other people, or to know things that other people do not know.
The interesting thing about O'Reilly is his sixth sense for finding people who have good ideas.

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