twenties

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'twenties

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntiz

Noun

twenties

1. plural of twenty

Noun

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

the decade of the 1920s

• Dutch: jaren twintig n pl, jaren 20 n pl, jaren 1920 n pl
• Finnish: kaksikymmentäluku
• French: années vingt f pl, années 20 f pl
• Georgian: 20-იანი წლები (20-iani c̣lebi), ოციანი წლები (ociani c̣lebi), 20-იანები (20-ianebi), ოციანები (ocianebi), 1920-იანი წლები (1920-iani c̣lebi), 1920-იანები (1920-ianebi)
• German: zwanziger Jahre n pl, Zwanziger (de) pl
• Hungarian: húszas évek
• Irish: fichidí m pl
• Japanese: 二十年代 (nijū-nendai), 20年代 (nijū-nendai)
• Korean: 20년대 (isimnyeondae)
• Polish: lata dwudzieste pl, lata 20. pl
• Spanish: años veinte
• Swedish: tjugotalet (sv) n
• Welsh: ugeiniau (cy) m pl, dauddegau m pl

See also

• tween
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

decades in English (edit)

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.

   • 1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, in The Hudson Review, volume 40, number 3, →DOI, page 493:

     It tells the life of a Sicilian peasant girl, Teresa, who is brought to a village in Provence just after the First World War; is adopted by two very "twenties" lesbian ladies, one American, one English, who rebuild, maintain, and allow to decay, an old house called the Bishop's Palace.

   • 2001, Toni McNaron, I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir‎^[1], Feminist Press at the City University of New York, →ISBN:

     Old photos show her in typical twenties styles—tight-fitting black dresses with lace, low-slung wide belts, large ornamental pins on her equally large bodice, funny hats with feathers.

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