sixty-five

[siks-tee-fahyv]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 5.

2. a symbol for this number, as 65 or LXV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 65 in number.

Example Sentences

Not only that, but Colored teachers could make sixty-five dollars a month.

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First of all, it was more than sixty-five feet below the surface.

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It is estimated that during each of the famine years, some sixty-five pounds of cabbage was consumed per person as it was all they had.

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"The colony of bats was usually located in the deeper chamber -- continues the expert -- , located sixty-five meters deep, with a relatively constant temperature -- around 7ºC -- during the months of December and January."

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A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall that is six metres high and sixty-five metres long.

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