Let’s have dinner on the sixth (=the sixth day of the month).
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►a sixth form college
British English (=where students in Britain can go at 16, instead of a school)
►enter its third week/sixth day/second year etc
The talks have now entered their third week.
►first/second/sixth etc form
examinations taken in the fourth form
►have a sixth sense
He seemed to have a sixth sense for knowing when his brother was in trouble.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES►first/second/sixth etc former
Debbie is a sixth former at Abergele High School.
coming after five other things in a series: her sixth birthday the sixth century—sixth pronoun: Let’s have dinner on the sixth (=the sixth day of the month).
sixth1adjectivesixth2noun
sixthsixth2 noun [countable]Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►a sixth form college
British English (=where students in Britain can go at 16, instead of a school)
►enter its third week/sixth day/second year etc
The talks have now entered their third week.
►first/second/sixth etc form
examinations taken in the fourth form
►have a sixth sense
He seemed to have a sixth sense for knowing when his brother was in trouble.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES►first/second/sixth etc former
Debbie is a sixth former at Abergele High School.
one of six equal parts of something: About one sixth of the children admitted to taking drugs.