different between vicenarian vs twenties

English

Etymology

From Latin vicen?rius (“of or containing twenty”), from vigint? (“twenty”) +? -an

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s??n??i.?n/

Noun

vicenarian (plural vicenarians)

1. A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.

   Synonyms: twentysomething, tween

Translations

Coordinate terms

• tricenarian
• quadragenarian
• quinquagenarian
• sexagenarian
• septuagenarian
• octogenarian
• nonagenarian
• centenarian

See also

• teenager

Anagrams

• invariance

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'twenties

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ntiz

Noun

twenties

1. plural of twenty

twenties pl (plural only)

1. The decade of 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.

2. 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.

3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 20 and 29.

   She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.

Synonyms

• 1920s, 2020s, '20s, 20s

Translations

See also

• tween
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

Adjective

twenties (not comparable)

1. From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

   That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.

Anagrams

• tentwise