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Definition of Sixth form
1. Noun. (context: English education system) the final two years of secondary schooling during which students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixth Form
Literary usage of Sixth form
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"A limited number of lower boys, whose parents were rich and willing to pay for
a costly dress, were selected to act as servants or pages to the sixth form, ..."
2. American Journal of Education (1878)
"The right to fag is limited to the sixth form. The three divisions next below the
... At cricket a sixth form boy may call upon any fag to field for him, ..."
3. Supplementary Papers (1886)
"EXAMINATION PAPER IN sixth form, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL, LONDON. 1. Give detailed
descriptions and maps of the course of two important rivers, ..."
4. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Revenues by Great Britain (1864)
"Supposing the power of the sixth form were subject to those qualifications which
exist in some other school«, namely, that a certain time must elapse before ..."
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