🌈 1960s decade 👵 Ages 60-69

sixties

46 2.1

The years from 1960 to 1969

noun
/ˈsɪkstiːz/

: los años sesenta

The long-term consequences of educational policies adopted in the sixties have gradually become conspicuous in Korea and Taiwan.
music of the sixties
the early sixties
the late sixties

Examples

Look, you were a campus activist in the Sixties.

The Big Fix (1978)
Perhaps, during the sixties, I would have disappeared without a trace, like my cousin Geraldine.

Fiction book (1991)
We believe the spirit of the Sixties should... live on.

Surf School (2006)
When I was growing up, "The Sixties" meant a style more than anything else.

Academic text (2008)
There was a lot going on here right up into the sixties.

Humongous (1982)
She did all those beach movies in the sixties.

Sole Survivor (1984)
Tropicalia in Brazil of the sixties was not just music; it was a compelling art movement.

Fiction book (1996)
The interest in time management started in the late fifties and early sixties of the twentieth century.

Academic text (2011)
Not surprisingly, the guardians of high culture found the sixties noisy, self-centered, and undisciplined.

Academic text (1992)
The social changes in the sixties transformed music and fashion around the world.

Synonyms

1960s

vssixties

208 1.8

A ten-year period from 1960 to 1969 with big social and cultural change

is the neutral name for the decade without added cultural associations

Compounds

mid-sixties

3.1

A time in life around sixty-five years old

Surface Forms

sixties singular

sixties plural

Morphology

sixties = sixty (transparent) = sixty + s

The suffix 's' is a standard plural marker, making the word refer to the decade encompassing the 1960s.

Etymology

Sixties comes from sixty, which is made from six and ten and can be thought of as 'six tens'. So, the sixties as a decade are the years from 1960 to 1969, the years that begin with '60'.