sixth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun position six in a countable series of things
  2. noun one part in six equal parts
    one-sixth.
  3. noun the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
  4. adjective satellite coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
    6th.

WordNet

Sixth adjective
Etymology
From Six: cf. AS. sixta, siexta.
Definitions
  1. First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
  2. Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixth noun
Definitions
  1. The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
  2. The next in order after the fifth.
  3. (Mus.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Webster 1913