twenties

alternative 'twenties

1. pluralplural of twenty

alternative 'twenties

1. pluralplural onlyThe third decade of a century: 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. pluralplural onlyThe decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.

   The waiter was in his twenties.

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   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. pluralplural onlyratestemperatureThe range between 20 and 29.

   She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.

alternative 'twenties

1. not comparableFrom or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

   That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.

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   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.

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

   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.

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