Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 6 × 10.
- noun A decade or the numbers from 60 to 69.
- noun The decade from 60 to 69 in a century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being the product of six and ten; being the sum of fifty and ten: a cardinal numeral.
- noun The product of six and ten; the sum of fifty and ten.
- noun A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, LX, lx.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
- noun The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
- noun A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as
LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
- adjective being ten more than fifty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The human population was decreased by 90% in sixty years.
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The human population was decreased by 90% in sixty years.
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Just like that, MSM to Blogspeak in sixty seconds …
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Human population was decreased by 90% in sixty years.
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She told me that Amex always called their customers within sixty days of a new account being activated to verify that they were who they said they were and they had given Amex a proper address.
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Human population was decreased by 90% in sixty years.
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Europe, Asia, and Africa; but not one word has been heard of them-not in sixty years.
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War veterans who haven't spoken a word about their soldiering in sixty years start relaying anecdotes about the nineteen-year-old versions of themselves that leave one gobsmacked.
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And within sixty seconds, Boo was shoulder to shoulder with his brother dropping balls down tunnels with his big brother.
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Human population was decreased by 90% in sixty years.
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