SIXTY
What does "SIXTY" mean?
The cardinal number equal to six times ten; 60.
Meanings
- The number 60. Sixty divided by four is fifteen.
- Amounting to sixty in number. The recipe needs sixty minutes in the oven.
- The years of a decade between 60 and 69, especially of a century or a person's age (the sixties). He took up painting in his sixties.
Did you know?
- We split every hour into 60 minutes because the ancient Babylonians counted in base 60 - a system over 4,000 years old that still runs your clock.
Word origin
From Old English 'siextig', from 'siex' (six) plus '-tig', the suffix denoting groups of ten; cognate with German 'sechzig'.
Remember it
SIXTY = SIX + TY; the 'ty' is the same '-ty' (ten) in twenty, thirty and forty - it literally means 'six tens'.
A little poem
Babylon's number still rules the clock face;
sixty small steps make an hour's slow pace.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why does the clock love the number sixty? Because every minute, it gets a second chance.
What it teaches
The oldest counts can outlive empires - sixty seconds still ticks from a city long turned to dust.
Quick facts
What does SIXTY mean?
The cardinal number equal to six times ten; 60.
Is SIXTY a valid word?
Yes — SIXTY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SIXTY?
SIXTY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SIXTY come from?
From Old English 'siextig', from 'siex' (six) plus '-tig', the suffix denoting groups of ten; cognate with German 'sechzig'.
What can SIXTY teach us?
The oldest counts can outlive empires - sixty seconds still ticks from a city long turned to dust.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.