sixty-seven

American  

[siks-tee-sev-uhn] / ˈsɪks tiˈsɛv ən /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 67 or LXVII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 67 in number.

Example Sentences

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sixty-seven

Nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by as much as sixty-seven percent, while particulate matter declined by up to sixty-eight percent compared with standard diesel fuel.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

But even the organization that unveiled the winning word -- pronounced "six-seven" and never "sixty-seven" -- admitted it was not exactly sure about its meaning.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

State senates range in size from twenty members in Alaska to sixty-seven members in Minnesota.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

The final document, running to sixty-seven hundred pages, has never been made public, but a director’s cut of five hundred and twenty-eight pages was released five years ago.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019

I don’t want to talk about what happened at St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church, South Grove, Massachusetts, sixty-seven days after the end of sixth grade, just four days before the start of seventh grade.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

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