Nineties

Quick meaning: Nineties is a noun meaning plural of ninety.

Meaning

plural of ninety.

More Meanings

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

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

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.

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