How do you pronounce sixties?

The recorded pronunciation is /sˈɪkstiz/.

sixties

/sˈɪkstiz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: six-ties
IPA: /sˈɪkstiz/

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Meaning

noun

plural of sixty

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)

noun

The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.

noun

The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.

adj

From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).

noun

The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)

noun

A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.

American usage

Example Sentences

"I remember living through the sixties."
"During the sixties [1860s] the Sabbatarians were particularly active in their attacks on Sunday excursions, and this had an effect both on the companies and the public."
"She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when."
"Highs in the mid sixties."
"She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong."
"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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Inflected Forms

'sixties (alternative)

Derived Forms

midsixties sixtiesish

Phrases

screaming sixties shrieking sixties 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

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Synonyms

1960s '60s 60s swinging sixties mid-sixties

sixties

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