sixties
IPA: sˈɪkstiz
noun
- The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69.
- The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
- (US) A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
- Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.) [The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)]
adjective
- From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s).
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Examples of "sixties" in Sentences
- The majority of his work took place in the fifties and sixties.
- The main body of his work was produced in the fifties and sixties.
- He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
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