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niceties

English

Noun

niceties

  1. plural of nicety

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nineties

English

Alternative forms

  • (decade): 90s, '90s, Nineties

Noun

nineties pl (plural only)

  1. plural of ninety
  2. The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
    • 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.
  3. The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
  4. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 90 and 99.

Synonyms

  • 90s, Nineties
  • 1990s

Derived terms

  • Gay Nineties
  • Naughty Nineties

Translations

See also

  • nonagenarian

Adjective

nineties (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Anagrams

  • Einstein, einstein

French

Noun

nineties f pl (plural only)

  1. nineties (decade)

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