How do you pronounce nineties?

The recorded pronunciation is /nˈaɪntiz/.

nineties

/nˈaɪntiz/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables: nineties
IPA: /nˈaɪntiz/

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noun

plural of ninety

noun

The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.

noun

The range between 90 and 99.

noun

The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.

adj

From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).

name

Alternative letter-case form of nineties, in the context of a specific decade (almost always) the 1890s or 1990s.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

90s (alternative) '90s (alternative) the nineties (canonical, plural)

Phrases

nervous nineties Gay Nineties Naughty Nineties 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s

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nonagenarian 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s

Synonyms

mid-nineties 1990s 1890s

nineties

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How to pronounce nineties