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6️⃣ The number 62 🔢 Describing 62
sixty-two

sixty-two

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A word that describes something as 62, for example someone's age
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɪksti tu/
translation icon : sesenta y dos
  • At age sixty-two, she was still very active and loved to travel.
  • sixty-two-year-old
  • sixty-two years
  • sixty-two years of age

Examples

  • He was ready now, at sixty-two years of age.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I'm sixty-two.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Now, at sixty-two, he had his life in order.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • At age sixty-two, she still had the energy and the body of a woman fifteen years younger.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • "You know, if she'd lived, she'd be only sixty-two this year.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • She was sixty-two then but looked much older.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Sure she's sixty-two, but everything's still in the right place!

    Fiction book (1990)

  • She felt a wrench at the sight of him; for the first time, she realized that at sixty-two he was starting to look old.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Leonid Yablonski was nineteen when he was first taken in as a lab assistant under Gerasimov, who was then sixty-two.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Mother Crawford, a fixture in St. Chris for all of her sixty-two years, sat behind the counter in her smeared butcher apron, her tongue tucked firmly in her cheek.

    Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

LXII
vssixty-two
8.1

The Roman numeral for sixty-two

is the same number expressed in words or modern numerals

Surface Forms

sixty-two positive

Morphology

sixty-two = sixty + two (transparent) = sixty + two

Numeric compounds like 'sixty' + 'two' directly denote the sum and are easily deduced by learners.

Etymology

Sixty-two is built from sixty ('six tens') and two, so it means 'six tens and two' or 'two more than sixty'.