释义
[ siks -tee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈsɪks ti / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun, plural six·ties. a cardinal number, ten times six.
a symbol for this number, as 60 or LX.
a set of this many persons or things.
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: Her grandfather is in his late sixties. The temperature is in the low sixties.
adjective amounting to 60 in number.
Idioms for sixtylike sixty , Informal . with great speed, ease, energy, or zest: Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.
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, -ty1
Words nearby sixty Sixtus I, Sixtus II, Sixtus III, Sixtus IV, Sixtus V, sixty , sixty-eight, sixty-eighth, sixty-fifth, sixty-first, sixty-five
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Therefore I thought nothing of undertaking a sixty miles' drive in broiling heat and along a villainous road.
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He is an oldish man, not less than sixty , with his hair and beard bleached with the storms of many travels.
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The bear came on for another sixty yards, lay down beside a huge boulder and prepared itself for a nap.
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The King of France, they say, is hiring of sixty sail of ships of the Dutch, but it is not said for what design.
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Tobuts, on the north side of the Tokachi, is the largest Ainu village in the district, and has as many as sixty huts.
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British Dictionary definitions for sixty noun plural -ties the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty
something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units
determiner amounting to sixty sixty soldiers (as pronoun ) sixty are dead Word Origin for sixty Old English sixtig
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