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Noun
twenties
- plural of twenty
Noun
twenties pl (plural only)
- The decade of 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.
- 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.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 20 and 29.
- She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.
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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
- Georgian: 20-იანი წლები (20-iani c̣lebi), ოციანი წლები (ociani c̣lebi), 20-იანები (20-ianebi), ოციანები (ocianebi), 1920-იანი წლები (1920-iani c̣lebi), 1920-იანები (1920-ianebi)
- German: zwanziger Jahre n pl, Zwanziger (de) pl
- Hungarian: húszas évek
- Irish: fichidí m pl
- Japanese: 二十年代 (nijū-nendai), 20年代 (nijū-nendai)
- Korean: 20년대 (isimnyeondae)
- Polish: lata dwudzieste pl, lata 20. pl
- Spanish: años veinte
- Swedish: tjugotalet (sv) n
- Welsh: ugeiniau (cy) m pl, dauddegau m pl
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Adjective
twenties (not comparable)
- From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).
- That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.
1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, in The Hudson Review, volume 40, number 3, →DOI, page 493: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, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, →ISBN: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.
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