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nineties en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).
   • I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.
   • Nineties kids are honestly "fired up" about their environment. Students are aware and worried that their world is being destroyed, and teachers only need to tap into that hidden stream of interest. 1997, Catherine M. Scharle, “Environmental Children's Books Created by the Hearts and Hands of High School Students”, in The English Journal, volume 86, number 7, →DOI, pages 86–90:

Forms

nineties en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
   • The line was doubled in the nineties and Hillfoot station added for suburbanites in 1900. 1959 October, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification prospect”, in Trains Illustated, page 541:
   • Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest. 1914, Amherst College, “Amherst graduates' quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 4, page 6:
   • 1919, Harry Hamilton Johnston, The Gay-Dombeys: A Novel, Macmillan, page 172, He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts.
   • While PSB [public service broadcasting] has always been subject to multiple influences there is no question that the nineties was a period of massive structural transformation. 2001, Gay Hawkins, “The ABC and Rhetorics of Choice”, in Tony Bennett, David Carter, editors, Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 176:
2. (form-of, plural, plural-only) plural of ninety
   form of ninety
3. (plural, plural-only) The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
4. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:rates) The range between 90 and 99.
   • My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.

Forms

Deriveds

nervous nineties · Naughty Nineties · Gay Nineties

Hyponyms

2090s · 1790s · 1890s · 1990s

Relateds

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

Translations (44)

ko 90년대 (the decade of the 1990s) · pt década de noventa (the decade of the 1990s) · pt anos noventa (the decade of the 1990s) · ka 90-იანები (the decade of the 1990s) · sv 90-tal (the decade of the 1990s) · lt dešim̃tas dešim̃tmetis (the decade of the 1990s) · ka ათას ცხრაას ოთხმოცდაათიანი წლები (the decade of the 1990s) · ka 90-იანი წლები (the decade of the 1990s) · pl lata 90. (the decade of the 1990s) · ru десятиле́тие девяно́стых годо́в (the decade of the 1990s) · hu kilencvenes évek (the decade of the 1990s) · de neunziger Jahre (the decade of the 1990s) · cmn 90年代 (the decade of the 1990s) · ka ოთხმოცდაათიანები (the decade of the 1990s) · de 90er Jahre (the decade of the 1990s) · tr doksanlar (the decade of the 1990s) · ja 九十年代 (the decade of the 1990s) · sv nittiotal (the decade of the 1990s) · cy nawdegau (the decade of the 1990s) · ja 90年代 (the decade of the 1990s) · fr années 90 (the decade of the 1990s) · de Neunzigerjahre (the decade of the 1990s) · ka ოთხმოცდაათიანი წლები (the decade of the 1990s) · cs devadesátá léta (the decade of the 1990s) · pl lata dziewięćdziesiąte (the decade of the 1990s) · nl jaren 90 (the decade of the 1990s) · ka 1990-იანები (the decade of the 1990s) · es los noventa (the decade of the 1990s) · fi yhdeksänkymmentäluku (the decade of the 1990s) · uk дев'яності (the decade of the 1990s) · ca anys noranta (the decade of the 1990s) · ko 구십년대 (the decade of the 1990s) · es años noventa (the decade of the 1990s) · lt devyniasdešimti̇́eji (the decade of the 1990s) · de Neunziger (the decade of the 1990s) · fr années quatre-vingt-dix (the decade of the 1990s) · nl jaren negentig (the decade of the 1990s) · ru девяно́стые (the decade of the 1990s) · nl jaren 1990 (the decade of the 1990s) · cmn 九十年代 (the decade of the 1990s) · id tahun sembilan puluhan (the decade of the 1990s) · ka 1990-იანი წლები (the decade of the 1990s) · lt devyniasdešimti̇̀niai (the decade of the 1990s) · tl dekada nobenta (the decade of the 1990s)