sext

1. 1.

   the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon

   Broadercanonical hour

Other forms of sext

plural

sexts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sext

What does sext mean?

sext means "the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon".

How many syllables are in sext?

sext has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.