...the sunniest April in Britain for more than sixty years.
2. plural noun
When you talk about the sixties, you are referring to numbers between 60 and 69. For example, if you are in your sixties, you are aged between 60 and 69. If the temperature is in the sixties, it is between 60 and 69 degrees.
She was in her sixties.
3. plural noun
The sixties is the decade between 1960 and 1969.
Fewer couples marry now than did in the Sixties and early Seventies.
sixty in British English
(ˈsɪkstɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-ties
1.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
See also number (sense 1)
2.
a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty
3.
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units
determiner
4.
a.
amounting to sixty
sixty soldiers
b.
(as pronoun)
sixty are dead
Word origin
Old English sixtig
sixty in American English
(ˈsɪksti)
adjective
1.
six times ten
nounWord forms: pluralˈsixties
2.
the cardinal number between fifty-nine and sixty-one; 60; LX
Idioms:
the sixties
Word origin
ME sixti < OE sixtig: see six & -ty2
Examples of 'sixty' in a sentence
sixty
She sang until the age of sixty.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
Fifty to sixty percent moisture by weight is required for proper fermentation.
Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)
Men last to their fifties and women to their early sixties.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Twice in sixty seconds he steered headers goalwards.
The Sun (2007)
We are sixty miles out to sea in a tall ship we are sailing.
Oxenhorn, Harvey Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic (1990)
Anyone reaching the age of sixty was killed out of hand.
Chapman, Philip Caves and Cave Life (1993)
There's one man who grows sixty thousand acres of wheat alone!
Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)
One can no longer expect that the organization for which one works at age thirty will still be around when one reaches age sixty.
Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)
I like the idea of becoming a great leader in sixty seconds.
Christianity Today (2000)
Divide into pairs, and tell each other a true story about yourself which typifies you in sixty seconds.
Bain, Roly Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning (1993)
At last we come to the parables, and the task is to tell a biblical parable in sixty seconds.
Bain, Roly Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning (1993)
A bad problem or a great hope required an especially heavy candle and weights could reach fifty or sixty pounds or more.
Greeley, Andrew M. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings (1995)
Q My husband is in his early sixties and we have been married for five years.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Figures vary from a minimum of forty thousand to a maximum of sixty thousand who came from fifty different countries to fight against fascism in Spain.
Paul Preston The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
As the train flew along, reaching sixty miles an hour at times, four hundred messages were sent.
Gavin Weightman SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution (2003)
In other languages
sixty
British English: sixty /ˈsɪkstɪ/ NUMBER
Sixty is the number 60.
American English: sixty
Arabic: سِتُّونُ
Brazilian Portuguese: sessenta
Chinese: 六十
Croatian: šezdeset
Czech: šedesát
Danish: tres
Dutch: zestig
European Spanish: sesenta
Finnish: kuusikymmentä
French: soixante
German: sechzig
Greek: εξήντα
Italian: sessanta
Japanese: 六十
Korean: 60
Norwegian: seksti
Polish: sześćdziesiąt
European Portuguese: sessenta
Romanian: șaizeci
Russian: шестьдесят
Latin American Spanish: sesenta
Swedish: sextio
Thai: หกสิบ
Turkish: altmış
Ukrainian: шістдесят
Vietnamese: sáu mươi
All related terms of 'sixty'
sixty-odd
around sixty ; approximately sixty (people or things)
sixty-one
the number that is between sixty and sixty-two ; a numeral , 61, etc, representing sixty-one
sixty-six
a cardinal number, 60 plus 6
sixty-two
the number that is between sixty-one and sixty-three; a numeral , 62, etc, representing sixty-two
sixty-first
being between sixty and sixty-two in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc: often written 61st
sixty-nine
a sexual activity involving two individuals and consisting of simultaneous oral stimulation of the genitals
sixty-fourmo
a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into 64 leaves or 128 pages , each one sixty-fourth the size of the sheet
sixty-second
being between sixty-one and sixty-three in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc: often written 62nd
sixty-fourth note
a note having the time value of one sixty-fourth of a semibreve
64°
a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into 64 leaves or 128 pages , each one sixty-fourth the size of the sheet
64mo
a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into 64 leaves or 128 pages , each one sixty-fourth the size of the sheet
sixty-four dollar question
a crucial question or issue
sixty-four thousand dollar question
a crucial question or issue
soixante-neuf
a sexual activity in which two people simultaneously stimulate each other's genitalia with their mouths
hemidemisemiquaver
a note having the time value of one sixty-fourth of a semibreve