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SIXTY-SIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixty-six mean? 

SIXTY-SIX (adjective)
  The adjective SIXTY-SIX has 1 sense:

1. being six more than sixtyplay

  Familiarity information: SIXTY-SIX used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SIXTY-SIX (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being six more than sixty

Synonyms:

66; lxvi; sixty-six

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)


 Context examples 


Charges brought upon the second Thursday after the Feast of the Assumption, in the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and sixty-six, against brother John, formerly known as Hordle John, or John of Hordle, but now a novice in the holy monastic order of the Cistercians.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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