sixtieth
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
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being one of 60 equal parts.
noun
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a sixtieth part, especially of one (1/60).
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the sixtieth member of a series.
adjective
noun
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one of 60 approximately equal parts of something
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( as modifier )
a sixtieth part
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the fraction equal to one divided by 60 ( 1/ 60 )
Etymology
Origin of sixtieth
before 1000; Middle English sixtithe, sixtiaghte, Old English sixtighetha, sixteoghotha; see sixty, -eth 2
Example Sentences
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The three are gathering this weekend in Las Vegas for the big game, and they’re hoping they can all make it to the sixtieth edition of the game two years from now.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
In 1885, it decreed that all enslaved people would be free when they reached their sixtieth birthdays.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
He said his father owned one-one hundred sixtieth of some gas reserves and he might eventually benefit from the bill when he inherits that gas.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2018
Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2016
Only recently, on Tiller’s sixtieth birthday, had she given him a map to her understone fund, so that he could use it for whatever he wanted.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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