sixties

noun 'sixties

1. plural plural of sixty

noun 'sixties

1. plural, plural only Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.) I remember living through the sixties.
2. plural, plural only The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69. She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when.
3. plural, plural only The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit. Highs in the mid sixties.

Similar: 1960s, '60s, 60s, swinging sixties

adjective 'sixties

1. 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.

noun sixties

1. plural, plural only The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s) Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate.

   Similar: 1960s, '60s, 60s

2. US, plural, plural only A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s. The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history.