English Explanatory Dictionary

sixties

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of sixty
noun
  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. The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.
adj
  1. From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).
noun
  1. The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
  2. A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.

Word forms

sixties 'sixties

Synonyms

1960s '60s 60s

Related words

sexagenarian 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's zeros zeroes aughts noughties oughts · oneties tens teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

Derived words

midsixties screaming sixties shrieking sixties sixtiesish
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