Meaning of Sixties | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
   plural, plural-only
2. Alternative letter-case form of Sixties (The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.)
   alt-of, plural, plural-only
3. A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
   US, plural, plural-only
4. The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.
   plural, plural-only
5. The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit.
   plural, plural-only

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Examples

“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.”

“Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate.”

“Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth[…]”

“2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/sixties-decade-was-it-good-sexual-revolution-swinging-london-hippies-culture-music-art-germaine-a7946506.html When asked what the Sixties were all about, most people reply: peace, love, happiness.”

“Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.”

“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.”

“But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960.”

“It is relatively easy to choose some event (Kent State, Altamont, Watergate, and the fall of Saigon are favorites) as the end of the Sixties[…]”

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