Definitions for nineties

• Definition
• Anagrams (104)

nineties nine·ty

Spelling: [nahyn-tee]

IPA: /ˈnaɪn ti/

Nineties is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in nineties (eeiinnst).

Definitions for nineties

noun

1. a cardinal number, ten times nine.
2. a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC.
3. a set of this many persons or things.
4. nineties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 90 through 99, as in referring to numbered streets, indicating the years of a lifetime or of a century, or degrees of temperature:

adjective

1. amounting to 90 in number.

Origin of nineties

before 1000; Middle English nineti, Old English nigontig. See nine, -ty¹

Examples for nineties

(A study from the nineties put the economic penalty at 7% two more recent studies put the penalty at 5%).

In the nineties, “gay rights” came to mean “special rights,” which may be ridiculous, but which was a successful opposing frame.

The End-of-History pronouncements of the sucky nineties settled very little.

I say, Rector, did you really know a Challenger in the 'nineties?

In the early nineties I had not a doubt that it could always be taken like that.

In the early nineties, Tedeschi was looking for a new line of research.

He was humming a gay snatch from the lighter music of the 'nineties.

“It was the early nineties and I was not very well known,” recalled Ford.

The respect for the Sixties was an article of faith, a dogma of dogmas in the nineties.

He checked the temperature, and found that it had risen into the high nineties.