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sixty

[siks-tee]

noun

plural

sixties 
  1. a cardinal number, ten times six.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 60 or LX.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.

  4. 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

  1. amounting to 60 in number.

sixty

/ ˈɪɪ /

noun

  1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six See also number

  2. a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty

  3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

determiner

    1. amounting to sixty

      sixty soldiers

    2. ( as pronoun )

      sixty are dead

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sixty1

before 900; Middle English (adj. and noun), Old English sixtig (adj.); cognate with Dutch zestig, German sechzig, Old Norse sextigir. See six, -ty 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sixty1

Old English sixtig
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. like sixty, with great speed, ease, energy, or zest.

    Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.

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Example Sentences

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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.

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Martha, who is now in her sixties, said all the children present were removed and she was eventually adopted by a non-traveller family.

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In March, the Education Department sent letters to sixty campuses warning them to “protect Jewish students” or “face potential enforcement.”

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"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."

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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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