nineties

Other forms of nineties

plural

ninetieses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nineties

What does nineties mean?

nineties means "the decade from 1890 to 1899". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nineties?

nineties has 2 syllables: nine-ties. The stress falls on "nine". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪntiz/.

What is another word for nineties?

Close synonyms include 1890s, 1990s, mid-nineties. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nineties a common word?

nineties is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.