Meaning

plural of ninety.

Definitions by Sense

1. plural of ninety
2. The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
3. (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 90 and 99.
4. The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
5. From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).

Example Sentences

My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.

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.

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 naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.

The line was doubled in the nineties and Hillfoot station added for suburbanites in 1900.

While PSB [public service broadcasting] has always been subject to multiple influences there is no question that the nineties was a period of massive structural transformation.

I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.

Nineties kids are honestly "fired up" about their environment. Students are aware and worried that their world is being destroyed, and teachers only need to tap into that hidden stream of interest.

Word Forms

• 90s
• '90s
• Nineties
• the nineties

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