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sixty
[siks-tee]
noun
plural
sixtiesa cardinal number, ten times six.
a symbol for this number, as 60 or LX.
a set of this many persons or things.
sixties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 60 through 69, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or noting degrees of temperature.
Her grandfather is in his late sixties. The temperature is in the low sixties.
adjective
amounting to 60 in number.
sixty
/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six See also number
a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units
determiner
amounting to sixty
sixty soldiers
( as pronoun )
sixty are dead
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sixty1
Idioms and Phrases
like sixty, with great speed, ease, energy, or zest.
Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.
Example Sentences
Dear Liz: My husband’s parents, who are 88 and 93, respectively, have decided to leave their house, worth $800,000, equally, to their three children, who are all in their sixties.
Martha, who is now in her sixties, said all the children present were removed and she was eventually adopted by a non-traveller family.
In March, the Education Department sent letters to sixty campuses warning them to “protect Jewish students” or “face potential enforcement.”
"Fifty or sixty percent of them don't even know one another. So even if you were an outside group, trying to have an agenda, it's very hard even to pick your cardinals to begin with."
The aftershocks would reverberate through three generations of Britain's most celebrated intellectual family, the Huxleys, leaving wounds that simmered in private letters for more than sixty years.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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