sixties

See also: Sixties

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'sixties

Noun

sixties

1. plural of sixty

Noun

sixties pl (plural only)

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. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69.

   Highs in the mid sixties.

Synonyms

• 1960s, '60s, 60s

Derived terms

• screaming sixties
• shrieking sixties

Translations

decade of the 1960s

• Dutch: jaren zestig n pl, jaren 60 n pl, jaren 1960 n pl
• Esperanto: 1960-aj jaroj
• Finnish: kuusikymmentäluku
• French: années soixante f pl, années 60 f pl
• Georgian: სამოციანები (samocianebi), სამოციანი წლები (samociani c̣lebi), 60-იანები (60-ianebi), 60-იანი წლები (60-iani c̣lebi)
• German: sechziger Jahre n pl, Sechziger pl
• Hungarian: hatvanas évek
• Indonesian: tahun enam puluhan
• Japanese: 六十年代 (rokujū-nendai), 60年代 (rokujū-nendai)
• Korean: 60년대 (yuksimnyeondae)
• Polish: lata sześćdziesiąte pl, lata 60. pl
• Spanish: años sesenta m, sesentas f
• Swedish: sextiotalet (sv) n, sextiotal (sv) n
• Tagalog: dekada sesenta
• Welsh: trigeiniau m pl, chwedegau m pl

See also

• sexagenarian

decades in English (edit)

Adjective

sixties (not comparable)

1. 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, →DOI, 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.