six
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
How often you will meet it
Rank 568 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 34,326 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.016% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one also: 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips also: six-spot
adjective
- denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units also: 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen
six in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The two galleries did not communicate, but only six feet of earth divided them.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Then, climbing up still higher, he at last reached a house beside whose open door six bells were hanging.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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He sat with the other new-comers, staring, open-eyed, at nearly six hundred boys, big and small, assembled together in the Speech-room.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Here Smith was placed upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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I told father that, and he asked me to wait six months more, and then to let him know my mind again.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1