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nineties^¹

noun 90s · '90s · Nineties

plural, plural only plural of ninety
plural, plural only The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
plural, plural only The range between 90 and 99. My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.

noun the nineties · 90s · '90s · Nineties

The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc. 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 naug

adjective 90s · '90s · Nineties

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^²

proper noun

Alternative letter-case form of nineties, in the context of a specific decade (almost always) the 1890s or 1990s. Seventies UFO fans also referred to “close encounters,” including the consciousness-raising “close encounter of the third kind,” in which humans and aliens meet. But UFOlogy has gone through a radical change, and in the Nineties the terms of the past are largely obsolete. During the past decade, for

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Closest in meaning: mid-nineties, eighties, seventies, sixties, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, ninetysomething, oughties, decade, teens, nineteen hundreds, tens, zeroes

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noun the decade of the 1990s

Español	años noventa, los noventa
한국어	구십년대 gusimnyeondae, 90년대 gusimnyeondae
日本語	九十年代 kyūjū-nendai, 90年代 kyūjū-nendai
中文	九十年代 jiǔshí niándài, 90年代 jiǔshí niándài
Português	anos noventa, década de noventa
Français	années quatre-vingt-dix, années 90
Deutsch	neunziger Jahre, Neunziger, Neunzigerjahre, 90er Jahre
Русский	девяно́стые devjanóstyje, десятиле́тие девяно́стых годо́в desjatilétije devjanóstyx godóv

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@misc{nineties_2026,
  title = {nineties},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nineties},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}