Meanings
- The cardinal number immediately following sixty-one and preceding sixty-three.
1 more example
"The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."
1985, Michael Swanwick, “Boneseeker”, in In the Drift (New Ace Science Fiction Specials; series 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2017, →ISBN, page 80
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralThe cardinal number immediately following sixty-one and preceding sixty-three.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebeing two more than sixty
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans twee-en-sestig
- twee-en-sestigcardinal number
Arabic اِثْنَان وَسِتُّون
- اِثْنَان وَسِتُّون (iṯnān wa-sittūn)cardinal number
Basque hirurogeita bi
- hirurogeita bicardinal number
Bengali বাষট্টি
- বাষট্টি (baśoṭṭi)cardinal number
Catalan seixanta-dos
- seixanta-doscardinal number
Chinese Mandarin 六十二
- 六十二 (liùshí'èr)cardinal number
Danish toogtres
- toogtrescardinal number
Dutch tweeënzestig
- tweeënzestigcardinal number
Esperanto sesdek du
- sesdek ducardinal number
Finnish kuusikymmentäkaksi
- kuusikymmentäkaksicardinal number
French soixante-deux
- soixante-deuxcardinal number
German zweiundsechzig
- zweiundsechzigcardinal number
Greek εξήντα δύο
- εξήντα δύο (exínta dýo)cardinal number
Hebrew ששים־ושנים
- ששים־ושנים (šiším və-šnáyim)cardinal number
Hindi बासठ
- बासठ (bāsaṭh)cardinal number
Hungarian hatvankettő
- hatvankettőcardinal number
Icelandic sextíu og tveir
- sextíu og tveircardinal number
Irish seasca is dhá
- seasca is dhácardinal number
Italian sessantadue
- sessantaduecardinal number
Japanese 六十二
- 六十二 (rokujūni)cardinal number
Korean 예순둘, 육십이
- 예순둘 (yesundul)cardinal number
- 육십이 (yuksibi)cardinal number
Latin sexaginta duo
- sexaginta duocardinal number
Malay enam puluh dua
- enam puluh duacardinal number
Polish sześćdziesiąt dwa
- sześćdziesiąt dwacardinal number
Portuguese sessenta e dois
- sessenta e doiscardinal number
Punjabi ਬਾਹਠ
- ਬਾਹਠ (bāhaṭh)cardinal number
Romanian șaizeci și doi
- șaizeci și doicardinal number
Russian шестьдеся́т два
- шестьдеся́т два (šestʹdesját dva)cardinal number
Spanish sesenta y dos
- sesenta y doscardinal number
Swahili sitini na mbili
- sitini na mbilicardinal number
Tagalog animnapu't dalawa
- animnapu't dalawacardinal number
Turkish altmış iki
- altmış ikicardinal number
Urdu باسٹھ
- باسٹھ (bāsaṭh)cardinal number
Vietnamese sáu mươi hai
- sáu mươi haicardinal number
Welsh chwe deg dau, dau a thrigain
- chwe deg daucardinal number
- dau a thrigaincardinal number
Cite this entry
sixty-two. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sixty-two
“sixty-two.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sixty-two. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sixty-two,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sixty-two.
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