English Explanatory Dictionary

nineties

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of ninety
  2. The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
  3. The range between 90 and 99.
noun
  1. The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
adj
  1. From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).
name
  1. Alternative letter-case form of nineties, in the context of a specific decade (almost always) the 1890s or 1990s.

Word forms

nineties 90s '90s the nineties

Related words

nonagenarian 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's zeros zeroes aughts noughties oughts · oneties tens teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

Derived words

nervous nineties Gay Nineties Naughty Nineties Roaring Nineties
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