sixty
pronunciation
How to pronounce sixty in British English:
UK [ˈsɪksti]
How to pronounce sixty in American English:
US [ˈsɪksti]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
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- Adjective:
- being ten more than fifty
Word Origin
- sixty
- Old English sixtig, from siex (see six) + -tig (see -ty (1)). Similar formation in Old Norse sextugr, sextögr, sextigir, Old Frisian sextich, Middle Dutch sestig, Dutch zestig, Old High German sehszug, German sechzig. Phrase sixty-four dollar question is 1942, from radio quiz show where that was the top prize.
Example
- 1. Fifty , sixty , one hundred howling wolves gathering on the meadow outside his room .
- 2. Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten ?
- 3. The poorest sixty people in the auditorium would have to make due squeezing into a single seat .
- 4. A revolution took place in europe during the last sixty years that most americans simply did not notice .
- 5. At sixty degrees below zero , a man with wet feet must not fail in his first attempt to build a fire .