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noun
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a cardinal number, ten times six.
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a symbol for this number, as 60 or LX.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
4.
sixties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 60 through 69, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or noting degrees of temperature: Her grandfather is in his late sixties. The temperature is in the low sixties.
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amounting to 60 in number.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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like sixty, Informal. with great speed, ease, energy, or zest: Everyone was working like sixty to finish up before the holidays.
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| sixty (ˈsɪkstɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | See also number the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six |
| 2. | a numeral, 60, LX, etc, representing sixty |
| 3. | something represented by, representing, or consisting of 60 units |
| —determiner | |
| 4. | a. amounting to sixty: sixty soldiers |
| b. (as pronoun): sixty are dead | |
| [Old English sixtig] | |
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