Definitions for sixty

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sixty six·ty

Spelling: [siks-tee]

IPA: /ˈsɪks ti/

Sixty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in sixty (istxy).

Definitions for sixty

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 sixty

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 sixty

Marked a tree sixty yards south of camp F 74, being 74th camp from Geraldton.

sixty percent of the HIV/AIDS sufferers in Liberia are women.

We formed a partnership, with a capital of sixty thousand dollars.

sixty fathom of two-inch chain, and old Joe talks about parting.

sixty vaccinators have been killed in the area in the last few years.

He looked back sixty years, and said it was time to give up.

Requests received more than sixty (60) days after January 31st, 2015, will not be honored.

sixty of those 700 are “juvenile lifers,” men who came in as adolescents and are serving a life term.

I can give you sixty seconds to find that I'm the North Star.

But a recently purchased automated bottling line has increased their output to sixty cases per hour.