The Collaborative International Dictionary
Six \Six\, a. [AS. six, seox, siex; akin to OFries. sex, D. zes, OS. & OHG. sehs, G. sechs, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sex, Goth. sa['i]hs, Lith. szeszi, Russ. sheste, Gael. & Ir. se, W. chwech, L. sex, Gr. ??, Per. shesh, Skr. shash. [root]304. Cf. Hexagon, Hexameter, Samite, Senary, Sextant, Sice.] One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.
Six Nations (Ethnol.), a confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations.
Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.
Wikipedia
Six Nations may refer to:
- Six Nations Championship, an annual international rugby union competition held between six European national teams
- Six Nations Under 20s Championship, an annual international rugby union competition held between the U-20's of six European national teams
- Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual international rugby union competition held between six European national teams
- Celtic nations, the six areas of Europe with a recent Celtic history and in possession of Celtic languages
- Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, a group of First Nations/Native American people that originally consisted of five nations, later six
- Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, the largest First Nation in Canada
- Six Nations Tournament (ice hockey), a 1994–1996 ice hockey club competition
Usage examples of "six nations".
We directed a declaration to be made to the six nations in general that if they did not take the most decisive measures for the preservation of neutrality we would never cease waging war with them while one was to be found on the face of the earth.
Will they buy Han Tzu's plan of dividing China into six nations and all of them joining the Free Peoples?
One of the lieutenants of the Tanjou subdued, in a single expedition, twenty-six nations.
In a windowless conference room in the mission control complex, twenty men and women from six nations thrashed out the problem that assailed them from nearly two hundred million kilometers away.
The executions had been suspended for a week, and two days had passed, frantically chewed up as the most knowledgeable leaders of the intelligence services from six nations gathered in London.
KALININGRAD: In a windowless conference room in the mission control complex, twenty men and women from six nations thrashed out the problem that assailed them from nearly two hundred million kilometers away.
Three years before, he had told a friend that he found it a very strange thing, if six Nations of ignorant Savages [meaning the Iroquois confederacy] should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union, yet a like Union should be impracticable for ten or a Dozen English Colonies.
The Indians rule in North America, and the Six Nations are the most powerful of all.
I went out to the Indian reservation, granted to the remnant of the Seneca tribe of Indians, once a portion of the Mohawks, and all that now remains in the United States of the famed six nations.
The Ruling Princes of the Six Nations are, in law and in practice, sub-kings under the High Kingship of Tara.
Hunting is bad here, for the people of the Six Nations are many, and some go hungry.