Definition

Adjective Being three more than sixty; the cardinal number that is equal to 63.

Usage

This word is used to denote the specific quantity or count of sixty-three items, years, units, etc. It functions as a determiner before a noun or as a predicate adjective.

Examples

• The recipe calls for sixty-three grams of sugar.
• My grandmother is sixty-three years old.
• The final score was sixty-three to forty-seven.

Advanced Usage

• As a numeral in non-quantitative contexts: The number can be used as a label or identifier.
  • He lives in apartment sixty-three.
• In mathematical expressions: Used to specify an exact value in equations or data.
  • The equation simplifies to x = sixty-three.

Variants and Related Words

• 63: The Arabic numeral form.
• LXIII: The Roman numeral form.
• Sixty-third (Adjective & Noun): The ordinal form, meaning "constituting number sixty-three in a sequence."
  • This is her sixty-third marathon. (Adjective)
  • She finished in sixty-third. (Noun)

Synonyms

• 63
• LXIII

Different Meanings

This word has only one core meaning: the cardinal number between sixty-two and sixty-four.

Adjective

1. being three more than sixty