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sext.

Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/sɛkst/
  1. Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

    historical
  2. The service appointed for this hour.

  3. A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.

  4. An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

noun/sɛkst/
  1. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

Where this word comes from

Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

verb/sɛkst/
  1. To send a sext.

    intransitive · transitive
Where this word comes from

Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

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