• (of the decade)'twenties

• Rhymes:-ɛntiz

twenties

1. plural oftwenty

twenties pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.

   My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by thetwenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120sBCE.

2. The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.

   The waiter was in histwenties.

   • 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien

     At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsibletwenties 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 thantwenties in the mountains.

• 1920s,2020s,'20s,20s

• tween
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

twenties (notcomparable)

1. From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

   Thatbob haircut makes you look sotwenties.

   • 1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, inThe Hudson Review, volume40, number 3,→DOI, page493:

     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 typicaltwenties 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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