sixty

Speech parts

1. sixty - Noun

2. sixty - Adjective

3. sixty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lx threescore 60 cardinal lux dicker five eighteen approximately eight score handle aged eleven dozen
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Antonyms

little young young blood new kid on the block new blood spring chicken

Hypernyms

large integer

Phrases with the word

the sixty-fifth position the sixty-fifth rank the sixty-fifth the sixty-fifth place sixty-fourth rest four more than sixty

Derivatives

sixties

Examples

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

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Baltasar Gracián

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

Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour. Jewish Proverb

At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing. Spanish Proverb

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Sixto Sixto-Clementine Sixtus IV sixty and four sixty and one sixty cycle hum