sixty

[Six·ty]

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

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Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

Noun
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

Adjective S.
being ten more than fifty


a.
Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

n.
The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.

n.
A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.


Sixty

Six"ty , a. [AS. siextig; akin to G. sechzig, Goth. sa'a1hs tigjus. See Six, Ten, and cf. Sixteen.] Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

Sixty

Six"ty, n.; pl. Sixties . 1. The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects. 2. A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.

Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.

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Usage Examples

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

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