Definition of six

"six" in the noun sense

1. six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad

the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

2. six-spot, six

a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips

"six" in the adjective sense

1. six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen

denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

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Quotations for six

I've often wished that I had clear.
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood. [ Swift ]

Six feet of earth make all men equal. [ Proverb ]

A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]

Three helping one another bear the burden of six. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears,
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things. [ Byron ]

If you have done no ill the six days, you may play the seventh. [ Proverb ]

Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, and he that cares for most shall find no more. [ Bishop Hall ]

There is in things a resistance superior to ideas, but for which the world would not exist six months. [ Lamennais ]

I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. [ Izaak Walton ]

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. [ Rev. R. Cecil ]

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. [ Goldsmith ]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [ Richelieu ]

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. [ Carlyle ]

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them. [ Swift ]

Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother: in those six words lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. [ Massias ]

The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. [ Beecher ]

Every man, within that inconsiderable figure of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. [ Carlyle ]

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]

It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

six in Scrabble®

The word six is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters six:

XIS
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word six

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The 46 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In six

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six in Words With Friends™

The word six is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters six:

XIS
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word six

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The 48 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In six

XIS
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XI
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Words within the letters of six

2 letter words in six (2 words)

3 letter words in six (Anagrams) (2 words)

six + 1 blank (1 word)

Word Growth involving six

Shorter words in six

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Longer words containing six

deepsix deepsixed

deepsix deepsixes

deepsix deepsixing

eightysix

ninetysix

seventysix

sixer sixers

sixes deepsixes

sixfold

sixfooter sixfooters

sixgill sixgilled

sixgun sixguns

sixing deepsixing

sixmembered

sixmo sixmos

sixpack sixpacks

sixpence sixpences

sixpenny

sixpointed

sixshooter sixshooters

sixsided

sixstep

sixstoried

sixteen sixteener sixteeners

sixteen sixteenfold

sixteen sixteenmo sixteenmos

sixteen sixteens

sixteen sixteenth sixteenths

sixth sixthly

sixth sixths

sixth sixtysixth

sixties

sixtieth sixtieths

sixty sixtyeight sixtyeighth

sixty sixtyfifth

sixty sixtyfirst

sixty sixtyfive

sixty sixtyfold

sixty sixtyfour sixtyfourth

sixty sixtyish

sixty sixtyninth

sixty sixtyone

sixty sixtysecond

sixty sixtyseven sixtyseventh

sixty sixtysix sixtysixth

sixty sixtythird

sixty sixtythree

sixty sixtytwo