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SIXTY-FIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixty-five mean? 

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

1. being five more than sixtyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SIXTY-FIVE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Being five more than sixty

Synonyms:

65; lxv; sixty-five

Similar:

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


 Context examples 


A frequency rate of occurrences of something within a period of time equal to three hundred sixty-five days.

(Per Year, NCI Thesaurus)

Sixty-five miles farther than from Maple Grove to London.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was the mainmast, fifteen inches in diameter at what was now the butt, still sixty-five feet in length, and weighing, I roughly calculated, at least three thousand pounds.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We go down the Yukon. It is night-time, it is November, and it is very cold—sixty-five below. She is soft. He is soft. The cold bites. They get tired. They cry under their breaths to themselves. By and by I say better we stop and make camp. But they say that they will go on.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The cabin-boy—and he weighed one hundred and sixty-five at the very least—crumpled up.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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