sixty-one

American  

[siks-tee-wuhn] / ˈsɪks tiˈwʌn /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 1.

2. a symbol for this number, as 61 or LXI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 61 in number.

Example Sentences

He attempted a response between hops sixty-one and sixty-five but found that the hare’s rising and falling was making conversation difficult.

From Literature

The fourteen hundred volunteers ranged in age from sixteen to sixty-one.

From Literature

After some back and forth over how Google would be able to provide information without violating its privacy policy, Google produced a spreadsheet of sixty-one searches made by eight accounts.

From Seattle Times

Looking back on his career just before his death in 1915, Comstock boasted of having “convicted persons enough to fill a passenger train of sixty-one coaches,” and having “destroyed 160 tons of obscene literature.”

From Los Angeles Times

Fischer claimed that at sixty-one he was the oldest prisoner in the center and therefore deserved more deference.

From Literature