Advanced English Word of the Day
ninetiesDefinitions
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| nineties | |
| 1. n. plural of ninety |  |
| 2. n. The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc. | |
| 3. n. The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99. | |
| 4. n. (temperature, rates, pluralonly) The range between 90 and 99. | |
| ninety | |
| 1. num. The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90. | |
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| The nineties generation in tennis has been utterly useless so far, exasperated fans say. |
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