sixties

Variant of sixty

sixty definition

sixty (siks′tē)

adjective

six times ten

Etymology: ME sixti < OE sixtig: see six & -ty

noun pl. sixties -·ties

the cardinal number between fifty-nine and sixty-one; 60; LX
sixty Idioms

the sixties

the numbers or years, as of a century, from sixty through sixty-nine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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