单词 | sixty |
释义 | sixty /siks"tee/, n. , pl. sixties, adj. n. 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: Her grandfather is in his late sixties. The temperature is in the low sixties. 5. like sixty, Informal. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest: Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays. adj. 6. amounting to 60 in number. [bef. 900; ME (adj. and n.), OE sixtig (adj.); c. D zestig, G sechzig, ON sextigir. See SIX, -TY1] |
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