sixty-one
8
1.0
- numeral
- /ˈsɪksti wʌn/
:
sesenta y uno
- Sixty-one students attended the lecture on the first day.
- Sixty-one percent
- sixty-one years old
- sixty-one years of age
Examples
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By this point, it was 7:30, and sixty-one kids, twenty-six of them girls, were out.
Academic text (2006) -
Sixty-one percent of entry-level employees would be responsible for independent management and development of programs.
Academic text (2010) -
I'm sixty-one years old; when would I have another chance to make something for you?
Fiction book (2002) -
From the list of ninety-two, sixty-one people are here.
Fiction book (1995) -
At sixty-one, Guy was more than three times Lang's age, although he did not look it.
Academic text (2002) -
Merrick, who is sixty-one years old and has been a teacher for forty years, is openly gay.
Academic text (1999) -
Sixty-one of the teachers were Caucasian, 3 were Asian, and 6 did not report.
Academic text (2014) -
In 2001 and 2002, President Bush nominated sixty-one candidates to positions on the courts of appeals.
Academic text (2005) -
The third edition of the textbooks contains a total of sixty-one first-rate articles.
Academic text (2005) -
Sixty-one percent of the youths were in daily contact with their parents before the victimizing event.
Academic text (2006)
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Morphology
Etymology
Sixty-one is simply the parts sixty and one, so it means 'sixty plus one'. The sixty part comes from six plus the ending -ty, which means 'ten' or a group of ten like in twenty, so sixty-one is literally 'six tens plus one' and is one more than sixty.