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sixty

[ siks-tee ]

noun

, plural six·ties.
  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

/ ˈsɪkstɪ /

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
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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, Informal. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest:

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

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Example Sentences

Sixty-seven Republicans voted against it, a margin in line with estimates of many conservatives from earlier in the day.

Requests received more than sixty (60) days after January 31st, 2015, will not be honored.

Sixty vaccinators have been killed in the area in the last few years.

But a recently purchased automated bottling line has increased their output to sixty cases per hour.

“Sixty-five years altogether,” she pointed out with a laugh.

But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.

At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.

Fujiyama, the noted volcano of Japan, is twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five feet high.

Madame Coquereau, in spite of her sixty-five years trudged along with springing step.

We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.

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