sixty-eight
10
1.0
- numeral
- /ˈsɪksti eɪt/
:
sesenta y ocho
- Next to the St. Louis, the ship mentioned most often was the Flandre, which appeared in sixty-eight of the stories.
- sixty-eight percent
- sixty-eight-year-old
- sixty-eight years
Examples
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Burt retired from that post in 1950, at the age of sixty-eight.
Academic text (1991) -
Over the intercom, the stewardess reports that there are sixty-eight passengers.
Academic text (1996) -
As a result, sixty-eight articles and features were identified for further analysis.
Academic text (2013) -
Fourth grade: sixty-eight percent achieved at or above the basic level.
Academic text (2006) -
Autism, on the other hand, affects one out of sixty-eight children in America.
Academic text (2016) -
We actually have sixty-eight venture funds in our database in Canada.
Academic text (1995) -
And you have sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents in the bank.
Fiction book (2001) -
The sample consisted of sixty-eight randomly selected senior secondary school students.
Academic text (2009) -
In the spring of 1868, sixty-eight students gathered to become the first matriculants of the Illinois Industrial University.
Academic text (2004) -
She celebrated her birthday on the sixty-eightth of March.
Synonyms
A Roman numeral for sixty-eight
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sixty-eight is simply two number words joined: sixty (literally 'six tens') and eight. So sixty-eight means 'six tens plus eight', which explains why it names the number 68.