Usually means: Sixty-year cycle in East Asia.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sexagenary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sexagenary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sexagenary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sexagenary: Wordnik
  5. sexagenary: Wiktionary
  6. sexagenary: Dictionary.com
  7. Sexagenary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. sexagenary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Sexagenary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. sexagenary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sexagenary: Free Dictionary
  12. sexagenary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  13. sexagenary: Infoplease Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sexagenary)

adjective:  Of or related to the number sixty, particularly:
adjective:  Containing sixty years.
adjective:  (now rare) Synonym of sexagenarian: lasting or aged sixty years; sixty-year-old.
adjective:  (mathematics, astronomy, now rare) Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60.
noun:  (mathematics, astronomy, now rare) Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60 numeration.
noun:  (now rare) Synonym of sexagenarian: a sixty-year-old.

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