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sexagenarian

English

Etymology

From Latin sexaginta (sixty)

Adjective

sexagenarian (not comparable)

  1. Being between the age of 60 and 69, inclusive. In one's seventh decade.

Synonyms

  • sexagenary

Related terms

  • sexagesimal

Translations

Noun

sexagenarian (plural sexagenarians)

  1. A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 69.

Synonyms

  • sexagenary (now rare)

Related terms

  • sexagesimal

Translations

Coordinate terms

  • vicenarian
  • tricenarian
  • quadragenarian
  • quinquagenarian
  • septuagenarian
  • octogenarian
  • nonagenarian
  • centenarian

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sixties

English

Alternative forms

  • (of the decade) 'sixties

Noun

sixties

  1. plural of sixty

sixties pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)
  2. The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
  3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69.

Synonyms

  • 1960s, '60s, 60s

Translations

See also

  • sexagenarian

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.

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