Sixty Definition

sĭkstē
sixties
noun
sixties
The cardinal number between fifty-nine and sixty-one; 60; LX.
Webster's New World
A decade or the numbers from 60 to 69.
They planned to retire in their sixties. The breeze kept the temperature in the sixties.
American Heritage
The decade from 60 to 69 in a century.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Six times ten.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
the sixties
  • the numbers or years, as of a century, from sixty through sixty-nine
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sixty

Noun

Singular:
sixty
Plural:
sixties

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Sixty

  • the sixties

Origin of Sixty

  • Middle English from Old English sixtig s(w)eks in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sixty Sentence Examples

  • Once again, war raged in Europe and around the world and left sixty million people dead.

  • Sixty species of parrots, some of them very handsome, are found in Australia.

  • For each dinner, sixty or more people show up.

  • The plant generally understood by this name is Nepenthes, a genus containing nearly sixty species, natives of tropical Asia, north Australia and (one only) of Madagascar.

  • By the Federal Act, passed in the session of 1908, a pension of ten shillings a week was granted to persons of either sex over sixty-five years of age, or to persons over sixty who are incapacitated from earning a living.

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