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Definition of Sixth-former

1. Noun. A student in the sixth form.

Definition of Sixth-former

1. Noun. (U.K.) Someone in the sixth form ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixth-former

Literary usage of Sixth-former

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Public Schools: Their Influence on English History; Charter House, Eton by James George Cotton Minchin (1901)
"In 1898 no sixth-former was either in the Eton Cricket Eleven or Eight, and only one Colleger was ... In 1899 we again find no sixth-former in the Eleven, ..."

2. A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales by Nicholas Carlisle (1818)
"... by the Sixth former Statute appropriated to the Usher, are taken from him, and his Salary advanced £25..13..4., making in the whole £60. per annum. ..."

3. A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales by Nicholas Carlisle (1818)
"The Barn and Croft in New Street, and the Croft in Moor Street alias Mole Street, by the Sixth former Statute appropriated to the Usher, are taken from him, ..."

4. Sunshine and shadow in New York by Matthew Hale Smith (1869)
"He was a Democrat of the Democrats, the standard-bearer of the Bowery Boys, the Fourth Warders, and of the Bloody Sixth. Former mayors, who had represented ..."

5. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"... In- of the articles one-sixth part of the value thereof, and one other sixth -former «hall part of such value shall be paid to the person who shall have ..."

6. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1830)
"... while the Forty-sixth former stayed behind to cover the country. Furius en- r^ camped imprudently, engaged rashly with the enemy, ..."

7. A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell . by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1919)
"But one was not easily caught, for even a sixth-former found hundreds of naked boys very much alike in the water, and the fact of any one having ..."

8. A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell . by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1919)
"But one was not easily caught, for even a sixth-former found hundreds of naked boys very much alike in the water, and the fact of any one having ..."

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