SIXTIETH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixtieth mean? 

• SIXTIETH (noun)
  The noun SIXTIETH has 2 senses:

1. position 60 in a countable series of things

2. one part in sixty equal parts

  Familiarity information: SIXTIETH used as a noun is rare.

• SIXTIETH (adjective)
  The adjective SIXTIETH has 1 sense:

1. the ordinal number of sixty in counting order

  Familiarity information: SIXTIETH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIXTIETH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 60 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("sixtieth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in sixty equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-sixtieth; sixtieth

Hypernyms ("sixtieth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• SIXTIETH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ordinal number of sixty in counting order

Synonyms:

60th; sixtieth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

Now, Grandma's sixtieth birthday!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A rate of inflation or deflation of a manometric device based on the unit of pressure equal to 133,332 Pa or 1.316E10-3 standard atmosphere during period of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.

(Millimeter of Mercury per Second, NCI Thesaurus)