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sixty

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪksti/
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Definition of sixty

number (plural sixties)

  • the number equivalent to the product of six and ten; ten more than fifty; 60:a crew of sixty sixty bedrooms sixty per cent of the children (Roman numeral: lx or LX)
  • (sixties) the numbers from sixty to sixty-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person’s life:Morris was in his early sixties the flower children of the sixties
  • sixty miles an hour:they were doing sixty
  • sixty years old:he retired at sixty
  • a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by sixty.

Derivatives

sixtieth

number

sixtyfold

adjective & adverb

Origin:

Old English siextig (see six, -ty2)

sixty in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of sixty in the US English dictionary