sixties

Speech parts

1. sixties - Noun

2. sixties - Adjective

Meaning

of Sixty

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

1960s 60s mid-sixties around year approximately aged birthday utter seventies ecstasy sixtieth years sixty eighties
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Antonyms

end gone

Hypernyms

decade decennary decennium time of life

Phrases with the word

nineteen sixties shrieking sixties the swinging sixties

Examples

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. Bob Dylan

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. W. Somerset Maugham

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. Julie Burchill

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. Arnold Schwarzenegger

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies. Coretta Scott King

Close letter words and terms

sixth-form college sixth-former sixthly Sixties Scoop sixtiesish sixtieth