Sixty (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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. 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.
Idioms
  1. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest: Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.
noun plural -ties
  1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
  2. a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty
  3. something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units
determiner
    • amounting to sixty
    • (as pronoun)
Sixty (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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