twenties

twenties

English

Alternative forms

• (of the decade) 'twenties

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntiz

Noun

twenties

1. plural of twenty
2. The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.
3. 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.

Synonyms

• 1920s, '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 German: zwanziger Jahre n pl, Zwanziger (de) pl Hungarian: húszas évek

Irish: fichidí m pl Japanese: 二十年代 (nijūnendai), 20年代 (nijūnendai) Korean: 20년대 (isimnyeondae) Polish: lata dwudzieste pl, lata 20. pl Welsh: ugeiniau (cy) m pl

See also

decades in English (edit)

21st century	2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
20th century	1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
19th century	1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
18th century	1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
Decade only	00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
	'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
	00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
	aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Nicknames	Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Swinging Sixties · Dirty Thirties · Roaring Twenties

• tween
• twentysomething
• vicenarian

Anagrams

• tentwise