sixty
Syllables: six·ty/ˈsɪksti//ˈsɪksti/
sixty numeral: the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
Numeral
sixty
- The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
- […]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.2005 August 21, Henry Alford, “Not a Word”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2017
- The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings.2014 November 24, Michael Thomas De Vlieger, “Multiplication Tables of Various Bases”, in The Number Base, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2023, page 43
- Synonyms:
- threescore
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
sixty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sixty in Hindi
- cardinal number
- साठ sāṭh
sixty in Tamil
- அறுபது
sixty in Marathi
- cardinal number
- साठ sāṭh
sixty in Urdu
- cardinal number
- ساٹھ sāṭh
More languagesFewer languages
- sixty in Bengali
- ষাট śaṭ
- sixty in Telugu
- అరవై aravai
- sixty in Malayalam
- അറുപത് aṟupatŭ
- sixty in Kannada
- ಅರವತ್ತು, ಅರುವತ್ತು
- sixty in Punjabi
- ਸੱਠ saṭṭha
- sixty in Gujarati
- સાઠ sāṭh
- sixty in Odia
- ଷାଠିଏ ṣāṭhie
- sixty in Sanskrit
- षष्टि ṣaṣṭi
- sixty in Sinhala
- හැට hæṭa
- sixty in Assamese
- ষাঠি xathi
- sixty in Nepali
- साठी sāṭhī
- sixty in Pashto
- شپېته špetë
- sixty in Tagalog
- animnapu
- sixty in Arabic
- سِتِّين sittīn, سِتُّون sittūn
- sixty in Malay
- enam puluh
- sixty in Indonesian
- enam puluh
- sixty in Persian
- شصت šast
- sixty in Thai
- หกสิบ hòk-sìp
- sixty in Vietnamese
- sáu mươi
- sixty in Myanmar
- ခြောက်ဆယ် hkraukhcai
- Dhivehi
- ހަށްޓި haṣ̊ṭi, ފަސްދޮޅަސް fasdoḷas
- Dzongkha
- དྲུག་ཅུ
Examples of sixty in a sentence
- The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.
- A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
- The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school.
Synonyms of sixty
Forms of sixty
| plural | sixties |
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Origin of sixty
Inherited from Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six + -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).
Words formed from sixty
- like sixty
- north of sixty
- screaming sixties
- shrieking sixties
- sixty cycle hum
- sixty-eight
- sixty-eighth
- sixty-eleven
- sixty-fifth
- sixty-first
- sixty-four
- sixty-fourth
- sixtyish
- sixty-nine
- sixty-ninth
- sixtyodd
- sixty-one
- sixty-second
- sixty-seven
- sixty-seventh
- sixty-six
- sixty-sixth
- sixtysomething
- sixty-something
- sixty-third
- sixty-three
- sixty-two
Phrases with sixty
Questions about sixty
- What does sixty mean?
- Sixty means the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
- What is sixty in Hindi?
- Sixty in Hindi is साठ (sāṭh). See Sixty meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sixty?
- Sixty can be a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce sixty?
- Sixty is pronounced /ˈsɪksti/ (UK).
Words near sixty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sixty (page history and authors); sixty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sixty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સાઠ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଷାଠିଏ (Odia) (page history and authors); साठी (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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