sixties
See also: Sixties
English
Alternative forms
- (of the decade) 'sixties
Noun
sixties pl (plural only)
- Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)
- The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69.
- Highs in the mid sixties.
Derived terms
Translations
decade of the 1960s
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See also
| 22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
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| 21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
| 20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
| 19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
| 18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
| 14th century | 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s |
| Decade only | 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 or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties | |
| Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |
Adjective
sixties (not comparable)
- 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, , 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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