sixties
sixties is the plural of sixty.
sixties is the alternative letter-case form of Sixties.
Noun (1)
sixties pl (plural only)
- The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
- She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when.
- The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.
- Highs in the mid sixties.
Meaning of sixty
Noun
sixty (plural sixties)
- A commercial lasting 60 seconds.
- […] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.2014, Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President
Adjective
sixties (not comparable)
- From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).
- She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.
- Historians do not rely on single bits of evidence, but are always seeking corroboration, qualification, correction. These novels, set in context, are in themselves interesting fragments of sixties culture.1993, Arthur Marwick, “Six Novels of the Sixties — Three French, Three Italian”, in Journal of Contemporary History, volume 28, number 4, →DOI, page 588
Noun (2) capitalized: Sixties
Sixties pl (plural only)
- The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
- Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate.1981, Channels of Communications, page 22
- Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth[…]2016, Oliver Gruner, Screening the Sixties, →ISBN, page 179
- A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
- The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history.1999, Andrew E. Hunt, “Introduction”, in The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, →ISBN, page 1
- But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960.2011, Rob Kirkpatrick, 1969: The Year Everything Changed, page xvii
Synonyms of sixties
Forms of sixties
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Words formed from sixties
Phrases with sixties
Questions about sixties
- What does sixties mean?
- Sixties means the decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
- What is sixties the plural of?
- Sixties is the plural of sixty.
- What part of speech is sixties?
- Sixties can be a noun or an adjective.
Words near sixties in the dictionary
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