English Explanatory Dictionary

twenties

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of twenty
noun
  1. The third decade of a century: the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.
  2. The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.
  3. The range between 20 and 29.
adj
  1. From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

Word forms

twenties 'twenties

Synonyms

1920s 2020s '20s 20s

Related words

tween twentysomething vicenarian 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
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