Definition of 'sixty'

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sixty

(sɪksti )

Word forms: plural sixties

1. number

Sixty is the number 60.

...the sunniest April in Britain for more than sixty years.

2. plural noun

When you talk about the sixties, you are referring to numbers between 60 and 69. For example, if you are in your sixties, you are aged between 60 and 69. If the temperature is in the sixties, it is between 60 and 69 degrees.

She was in her sixties.

3. plural noun

The sixties is the decade between 1960 and 1969.

Fewer couples marry now than did in the Sixties and early Seventies.

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sixty in British

(ˈsɪkstɪ )

nounWord forms: plural -ties

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

sixty in American

(ˈsɪksti ; siksˈtē)

adjective

six times ten

nounWord forms: plural ˈsixties

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

Idioms:

the sixties

Word origin of 'sixty'

ME sixti < OE sixtig: see six & -ty2

Example sentences containing 'sixty'

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She sang until the age of sixty. Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003) Fifty to sixty percent moisture by weight is required for proper fermentation. Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)Men last to their fifties and women to their early sixties. Times, Sunday Times (2014)Twice in sixty seconds he steered headers goalwards. The Sun (2007)We are sixty miles out to sea in a tall ship we are sailing. Oxenhorn, Harvey Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic (1990)Anyone reaching the age of sixty was killed out of hand. Chapman, Philip Caves and Cave Life (1993)There's one man who grows sixty thousand acres of wheat alone! Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)One can no longer expect that the organization for which one works at age thirty will still be around when one reaches age sixty. Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)I like the idea of becoming a great leader in sixty seconds. Christianity Today (2000)Divide into pairs, and tell each other a true story about yourself which typifies you in sixty seconds. Bain, Roly Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning (1993)At last we come to the parables, and the task is to tell a biblical parable in sixty seconds. Bain, Roly Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning (1993)A bad problem or a great hope required an especially heavy candle and weights could reach fifty or sixty pounds or more. Greeley, Andrew M. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings (1995)Q My husband is in his early sixties and we have been married for five years. Times, Sunday Times (2013)Figures vary from a minimum of forty thousand to a maximum of sixty thousand who came from fifty different countries to fight against fascism in Spain. Paul Preston The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and RevengeAs the train flew along, reaching sixty miles an hour at times, four hundred messages were sent. Gavin Weightman SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution (2003)

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Translations for 'sixty'

British English: sixty /ˈsɪkstɪ/ NUMBER

Sixty is the number 60.

American English: sixty
Arabic: سِتُّونُ
Brazilian Portuguese: sessenta
Chinese: 六十
Croatian: šezdeset
Czech: šedesát
Danish: tres
Dutch: zestig
European Spanish: sesenta
Finnish: kuusikymmentä
French: soixante
German: sechzig
Greek: εξήντα
Italian: sessanta
Japanese: 六十
Korean: 60
Norwegian: seksti
Polish: sześćdziesiąt
European Portuguese: sessenta
Romanian: șaizeci
Russian: шестьдесят
Spanish: sesenta
Swedish: sextio
Thai: หกสิบ
Turkish: altmış
Ukrainian: шістдесят
Vietnamese: sáu mươi

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Definition of sixty from the Collins English Dictionary

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