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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. Penn Jillette:

    There seems to be one person in this race who's actually genuine and not crazy. And that's Bernie, he uses the word socialist, which in the United States is what? Sixty percent socialist now? We're a mixed economy. This is all stuff a libertarian probably shouldn't say, but 'socialist' isn't a dirty word. It's a different way of looking at how the government works.

  2. Aliko Dangote:

    We have been badly affected like any other company, when you are talking about 20 billion dollars worth of projects, what is 161 million? One-hundred-and-sixty-one million dollars is my six weeks' need.

  3. Janet Mills:

    A woman who never even attended the wedding or the reception but simply interacted with someone else who did attend... lost her life to this virus, sixty people are now associated with that one outbreak, its impacts are widespread.

  4. Arnold Bennett:

    A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

  5. Mark Willenbring:

    It’s a lot like depression. Sixty or 70 years ago, the only place you could go was a state hospital, and not many people went.

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