sixty-four
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sesenta y cuatro
- The temperature is expected to reach a high of sixty-four degrees this afternoon.
- sixty-four percent
- sixty-four years
Examples
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To my direct question, he answers that he is sixty-four.
Fiction book (1994) -
In 1964, when he was sixty-four and I was thirty-four, my father suffered an incapacitating stroke.
Academic text (1997) -
Sixty-four percent of the adopted Chinese children were the only child in the family.
Academic text (2006) -
"And you're sixty-four." "I mentioned that a few minutes ago, didn't I?
Fiction book (1994) -
Roscoe is tomming around now and also referring to the fact that he is sixty-four years old.
Fiction book (1990) -
In 1956, amendments to Social Security legislation provided benefits to disabled workers aged fifty to sixty-four and to disabled adult offspring.
Academic text (2002) -
To further probe the children's understanding of these economic concepts, we randomly selected a subsample of sixty-four students for interviews.
Academic text (1999) -
The Self-Description Inventory (SDI) consists of sixty-four pairs of personally descriptive adjectives.
Academic text (2005) -
My grandmother is now sixty-four years old and loves to tell stories about her childhood.
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In the game, you need to collect sixty-four points to win.
Synonyms
A Roman way to write the number sixty-four
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sixty-four is just two English number words joined: sixty (which is 'six times ten') and four. So it simply means 'six tens and four', which is why sixty-four is the number 64 and why a chessboard has 64 squares.