/ sɪks; NAmE / number 6
HELP NOTE : There are examples of how to use numbers at the entry for five .
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IDIOMS
- at sixes and sevens
- be six feet under
- hit / knock sb for six
- it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English siex , six , syx , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs , from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex .