sixty-five
- numeral
- The speed limit on this road is sixty-five miles per hour.
- sixty-five percent
- age sixty-five
- sixty-five years
Examples
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Overall, the Endolymphatic Subarachnoid Shunt Operation offered success in sixty-five percent of operations performed.
Academic text (1995) -
So what if they weren't able to retire at age sixty-five and buy a seaside bungalow?
Fiction book (1999) -
"The speed limit on that stretch is sixty-five" was all he had to say.
Fiction book (1994) -
We zipped along Loop 1 at about sixty-five because there was no traffic.
Fiction book (1994) -
Only they paid me not a hundred bucks a week but sixty-five: no George Mashbitz suits for me.
Fiction book (2000) -
After celebrating sixty-five years of existence, Israel can confidently expect to overcome the challenges ahead.
Academic text (2013) -
The median-size state program serves only about sixty-five firms and 4,000 employees per year.
Academic text (1996) -
The colt was among the sixty-five horses and several colts that we lost during the voyage.
Academic text (1999) -
Longoria was born in Kenedy, Texas, a small community about sixty-five miles north of Corpus Christi.
Academic text (1999) -
In June 1976, a consent decree was approved requiring EPA to regulate sixty-five pollutants and classes of pollutants.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A Roman numeral for 65
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sixty-five is a simple combination of sixty and five; sixty comes from six and ten meaning 'six tens', and sixty-five is just 'sixty plus five', which is why it refers to the number 65.