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sixty-five

[ siks-tee-fahyv ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 5.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 65 or LXV.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 65 in number.
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Example Sentences

It is estimated that during each of the famine years, some sixty-five pounds of cabbage was consumed per person as it was all they had.

From Salon

"The colony of bats was usually located in the deeper chamber -- continues the expert -- , located sixty-five meters deep, with a relatively constant temperature -- around 7ºC -- during the months of December and January."

A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall that is six metres high and sixty-five metres long.

“It takes almost a hundred and sixty-five years for Neptune to complete one orbit around the sun!”

Two hundred and sixty-five in total, dead or dying.

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