different between sixty vs fiftysomething
sixty
English
Etymology
From Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English siexti?, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six +? -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit ????? (?a??i).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?kst?/
- (General American) enPR: s?ks?t?, IPA(key): /?s?ksti/
- Hyphenation: six?ty
Numeral
sixty
- The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
Synonyms
- Arabic numerals: 60
- Roman numerals: LX
Translations
See also
- Previous: fifty-nine, fifty
- Next: sixty-one, seventy
- sexagesimal
Anagrams
- xysti
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fiftysomething
English
Alternative forms
- fifty-something
Noun
fiftysomething (countable and uncountable, plural fiftysomethings)
- (countable, colloquial) A person aged between 50 and 59 years.
- She was a spritely fiftysomething.
Synonyms
- quinquagenarian
Translations
Numeral
fiftysomething
- Between fifty and sixty.
fiftysomething From the web:
- what does fortysomething mean
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