sixties
About 4.19 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun plural of sixty
- noun Alternative letter-case form of Sixties
I remember living through the sixties.
- noun 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.
- noun The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.
Highs in the mid sixties.
- adjective 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.
Similar words
mid-sixties onwards seventies eighties fifties nineties twenties forties thirties midsixties
Often followed by
and the was were to when in of that
Word family
60 sixtieth sixty sixtyish
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