Dictionary

twenties en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).
   • It tells the life of a Sicilian peasant girl, Teresa, who is brought to a village in Provence just after the First World War; is adopted by two very "twenties" lesbian ladies, one American, one English, who rebuild, maintain, and allow to decay, an old house called the Bishop's Palace. 1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, in The Hudson Review, volume 40, number 3, →DOI, page 493:
   • That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.
   • Old photos show her in typical twenties styles—tight-fitting black dresses with lace, low-slung wide belts, large ornamental pins on her equally large bodice, funny hats with feathers. 2001, Toni McNaron, I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, →ISBN:

Forms

twenties en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (form-of, plural) plural of twenty
   form of twenty
2. (plural, plural-only) The third decade of a century: the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.
   • My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by the twenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120s BCE.
3. (plural, plural-only) The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.
   • The waiter was in his twenties.
   • 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
4. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:rates) The range between 20 and 29.
   • She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.

Forms

Deriveds

twirties

Relateds

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Synonyms

2020s · 20s · '20s · 1920s

Translations (30)

ka ოციანები (the decade of the 1920s) · es años veinte (the decade of the 1920s) · de zwanziger Jahre (the decade of the 1920s) · ko 이십년대 (the decade of the 1920s) · cmn 二十年代 (the decade of the 1920s) · ko 20년대 (the decade of the 1920s) · fi kaksikymmentäluku (the decade of the 1920s) · ja 20年代 (the decade of the 1920s) · de Zwanziger (the decade of the 1920s) · de 20er (the decade of the 1920s) · ka 1920-იანი წლები (the decade of the 1920s) · ka 1920-იანები (the decade of the 1920s) · sv tjugotalet (the decade of the 1920s) · pl lata 20. (the decade of the 1920s) · nl jaren twintig (the decade of the 1920s) · cy ugeiniau (the decade of the 1920s) · nl jaren 20 (the decade of the 1920s) · hu húszas évek (the decade of the 1920s) · ka 20-იანები (the decade of the 1920s) · cmn 20年代 (the decade of the 1920s) · cy dauddegau (the decade of the 1920s) · ga fichidí (the decade of the 1920s) · ja 二十年代 (the decade of the 1920s) · fr années vingt (the decade of the 1920s) · de 1920er (the decade of the 1920s) · ka ოციანი წლები (the decade of the 1920s) · nl jaren 1920 (the decade of the 1920s) · fr années 20 (the decade of the 1920s) · ka 20-იანი წლები (the decade of the 1920s) · pl lata dwudzieste (the decade of the 1920s)