decennium vs sixties

sixties vs decennium

decennium and sixties both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
decennium	Yes	No	No	No
sixties	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sixties is a hyponym of decennium; that is, sixties is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than decennium:

decennium: a period of 10 years
sixties: the decade from 1960 to 1969

Other hyponyms of decennium include 1900s, 1530s, 1920s, twenties, 1820s, 1930s, thirties, 1830s, 1940s, forties, 1840s, 1950s, fifties, 1850s, 1750s, 1960s, 1860s, 1760s, 1970s, seventies, 1870s, 1770s, 1980s, eighties, 1880s, eighties, 1780s, 1990s, nineties, 1890s, nineties, 1790s.

decennium (noun)	sixties (noun)
a period of 10 years	the time of life between 60 and 70
	the decade from 1960 to 1969

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