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sixty
[ siks-tee ]
noun
- a 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, Informal. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest:
Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.
Example Sentences
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.
Hudd was well known for his numerous appearances on radio, stage and screen, which in his sixties and seventies included appearances on Holby City, Coronation Street and Call the Midwife.
The internal estimates are that more than a hundred and sixty thousand people will die from malaria per year, from the abandonment of these programs, if they’re not restored.
The Kuwati migrant, in his sixties, suffered a cardiac arrest on the boat that was carrying him and other migrants on Saturday, the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said in a statement.
In 2016, sixty percent of those eligible to vote did so.
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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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