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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:
Familiarity information: SIXTY-SIX used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being six more than sixty
Synonyms:
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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