Sixties
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sixties is a noun meaning plural of sixty.
Meaning
plural of sixty.
More Meanings
- The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.
- From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).
- Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)
Example Sentences
Highs in the mid sixties.
I remember living through the sixties.
She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when.
She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include onwards, seventies, eighties, fifties, nineties, twenties.
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