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From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Alternative letter-case form of nineties, in the context of a specific decade (almost always) the 1890s or 1990s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
plural of ninety
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural, plural-only
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The range between 90 and 99.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Qualifier: rates
Topics: temperature
Examples
- My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the time of life between 90 and 100
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mid-nineties
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time of life
the decade from 1990 to 1999
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: 1990s
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decade, decennary, decennium
the decade from 1890 to 1899
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: 1890s
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decade, decennary, decennium
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
anys noranta
— the decade of the 1990s
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Chinese Mandarin:
九十年代
(jiǔshí niándài)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Chinese Mandarin:
90年代
(jiǔshí niándài)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Czech:
devadesátá léta
— the decade of the 1990s
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Dutch:
jaren negentig
— the decade of the 1990s
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Dutch:
jaren 90
— the decade of the 1990s
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Dutch:
jaren 1990
— the decade of the 1990s
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Finnish:
yhdeksänkymmentäluku
— the decade of the 1990s
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French:
années quatre-vingt-dix
— the decade of the 1990s
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French:
années 90
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
1990-იანები
(1990-ianebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
1990-იანი წლები
(1990-iani c̣lebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
ათას ცხრაას ოთხმოცდაათიანი წლები
(atas cxraas otxmocdaatiani c̣lebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
ოთხმოცდაათიანები
(otxmocdaatianebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
90-იანები
(90-ianebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
90-იანი წლები
(90-iani c̣lebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Georgian:
ოთხმოცდაათიანი წლები
(otxmocdaatiani c̣lebi)
— the decade of the 1990s
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German:
neunziger Jahre
— the decade of the 1990s
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German:
Neunziger
— the decade of the 1990s
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German:
Neunzigerjahre
— the decade of the 1990s
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German:
90er Jahre
— the decade of the 1990s
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Hungarian:
kilencvenes évek
— the decade of the 1990s
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Indonesian:
tahun sembilan puluhan
— the decade of the 1990s
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Japanese:
九十年代
(kyūjū-nendai)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Japanese:
90年代
(kyūjū-nendai)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Korean:
구십년대
(gusimnyeondae)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Korean:
90년대
(gusimnyeondae)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Lithuanian:
devyniasdešimti̇̀niai
— the decade of the 1990s
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Lithuanian:
devyniasdešimti̇́eji
— the decade of the 1990s
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Lithuanian:
dešim̃tas dešim̃tmetis
— the decade of the 1990s
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Polish:
lata dziewięćdziesiąte
— the decade of the 1990s
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Polish:
lata 90.
— the decade of the 1990s
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Portuguese:
anos noventa
— the decade of the 1990s
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Portuguese:
década de noventa
— the decade of the 1990s
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Russian:
девяно́стые
(devjanóstyje)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Russian:
десятиле́тие девяно́стых годо́в
(desjatilétije devjanóstyx godóv)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Spanish:
años noventa
— the decade of the 1990s
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Spanish:
los noventa
— the decade of the 1990s
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Swedish:
nittiotal
— the decade of the 1990s
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Swedish:
90-tal
— the decade of the 1990s
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Tagalog:
dekada nobenta
— the decade of the 1990s
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Turkish:
doksanlar
— the decade of the 1990s
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Ukrainian:
дев'яності
(devʺjanosti)
— the decade of the 1990s
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Welsh:
nawdegau
— the decade of the 1990s