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See also: Sixties

English

Alternative forms

  • (of the decade) 'sixties

Noun

sixties

  1. plural of sixty

Noun

sixties pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)
    I remember living through the sixties.
    • 1954 June, R. Marchant, “Early Excursion Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 427:
      During the sixties [1860s] the Sabbatarians were particularly active in their attacks on Sunday excursions, and this had an effect both on the companies and the public.
  2. 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.
  3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.
    Highs in the mid sixties.

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decades in English (edit)
More information 18th century, 19th century ...

Adjective

sixties (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • 1993, Arthur Marwick, “Six Novels of the Sixties — Three French, Three Italian”, in Journal of Contemporary History, volume 28, number 4, →DOI, page 588:
      Historians do not rely on single bits of evidence, but are always seeking corroboration, qualification, correction. These novels, set in context, are in themselves interesting fragments of sixties culture.
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