sixty

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six·ty / ˈsikstē/ • cardinal number (pl. -ties) the number equivalent to the product of six and ten; ten more than fifty; 60: a crew of sixty sixty bedrooms sixty percent of the children. (Roman numeral: lx, LX.) ∎  (sixties) the numbers from sixty to sixty-nine, esp. the years of a century or of a person's life: Morris was in his early sixties the flower children of the sixties. ∎  sixty miles an hour: they were doing sixty. ∎  sixty years old: he retired at sixty.DERIVATIVES: six·ti·eth / -i[unvoicedth]/ ordinal numbersix·ty·fold / -ˈfōld/ adj. & adv.