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ˈsɪks tisix·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sixty, 60, LXadjective

    the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

  2. sixty, 60, lx, threescoreadjective

    being ten more than fifty

Wiktionary

  1. sixtynumeral

    The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sixtyadjective

    Six times ten.

    Etymology: sixtig , Saxon.

    When the boats were come within sixty yards of the pillar, they found themselves all bound, and could go no farther. Francis Bacon.

    Of which 7 times 9, or the year 63, is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Thomas Browne, Vulg. Errours.

Wikipedia

  1. sixty

    60 (sixty) (Listen ) is the natural number following 59 and preceding 61. Being three times 20, it is called threescore in older literature (kopa in Slavic, Schock in Germanic).

ChatGPT

  1. sixty

    Sixty is a numerical value, an integer that is equivalent to two times thirty, three times twenty, and six times ten. It is often recognized as a significant numerical figure in various systems including the sexagesimal (base 60) and duodecimal systems. It is also notable as the number of minutes in an hour, and seconds in a minute, in the concept of time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sixtyadjective

    six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore

  2. Sixtynoun

    the sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects

  3. Sixtynoun

    a symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX

  4. Etymology: [AS. siextig; akin to G. sechzig, Goth. sahs tigjus. See Six, Ten, and cf. Sixteen.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sixty

    siks′ti, adj. and n. six times ten.—adj. and n. Six′tieth, the sixth tenth: the ordinal of sixty. [A.S. sixtig.]

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sixty' in Written Corpus Frequency: #329

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sixty in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sixty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sixty in a Sentence

  1. Faisal Edhi:

    Sixty-five people have died over the last three days, we have the bodies in our cold storage facilities and their neighborhood doctors have said they died of heat-stroke.

  2. Donald Stratton:

    We got hit with the big bomb and that exploded like a million pounds of ammunition. The fireball went about sixty, seventy feet in the air, the explosion could have taken us away, but it didn't and thank God we made it across.

  3. Michael Bivona:

    People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working.

  4. James Grover Thurber:

    With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

  5. Bob Alexander:

    He was on what is known as the Second Schweinfurt Raid where 600 planes were in the raid. Sixty were shot down. He never said anything special about it.

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