Definitions for sixties

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sixties six·ty

Spelling: [siks-tee]

IPA: /ˈsɪks ti/

Sixties is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in sixties (eiisstx).

Definitions for sixties

noun

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. sixties, 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:

Idioms

1. like sixty, Informal. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest:

adjective

1. amounting to 60 in number.

Origin of sixties

before 900; Middle English (adj. and noun), Old English sixtig (adj.); cognate with Dutch zestig, German sechzig, Old Norse sextigir. See six, -ty

Examples for sixties

He was a tall, lean, gracious bald man in his early sixties.

By the mid-1990s, Kinkade had become to the evangelical movement what Peter Max was to the psychedelic sixties.

John Paul was youthful in his sixties with a radiant charisma.

This was, after all, the Swinging sixties in London and the country had moved on.

That Frenchman who came here in the sixties for antiquities?

In the early sixties we believed in velocity and clearness and brilliancy.

And we collected the drawings and publications of the sixties.

The respect for the sixties was an article of faith, a dogma of dogmas in the Nineties.

“The sixties—I had to have my foot in everything then,” he says.

I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent.