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nine·ty

 (nīn′tē)
n. pl. nine·ties
1. The cardinal number equal to 9 × 10.
2. nineties
a. A decade or the numbers from 90 to 99: My grandparents are in their nineties. During the heat wave, the temperature stayed in the nineties.
b. often Nineties The decade from 90 to 99 in a century.

[Middle English ninti, from Old English nigontig; see newn̥ in Indo-European roots.]

nine′ty adj. & pron.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.nineties - the decade from 1890 to 1899nineties - the decade from 1890 to 1899  
decade, decennary, decennium - a period of 10 years
2.nineties - the decade from 1990 to 1999
decade, decennary, decennium - a period of 10 years
3.nineties - the time of life between 90 and 100nineties - the time of life between 90 and 100
time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
eld, geezerhood, old age, years, age - a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
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Translations
التِّسْعيناتتِسْعيناتدرجَة الحَرارَه بين التِّسْعين والمئه
devadesátá létaléta mezi devadesátkou a stovkouteplota mezi 90 a 100 stupni
halvfemserne
kilencveneskilencvenes évek
milli níutíu og hundraî gráîurtíræîisaldurtíundi áratugurinn
deväťdesiate roky
doksanıncıdoksanlı

ninety

(ˈnainti) noun
1. the number or figure 90.
2. the age of 90.
adjective
1. 90 in number.
2. aged 90.
ˈnineties noun plural
1. the period of time between one's ninetieth and one hundredth birthdays.
2. the range of temperatures between ninety and one hundred degrees.
3. the period of time between the ninetieth and one hundredth years of a century.
ˈninetieth noun
1. one of ninety equal parts.
2. (also adjective) the last of ninety (people, things etc); the next after the eighty-ninth.
ninety-
having ninety (of something). a ninety-dollar fine.
ˈninety-year-old noun
a person or animal that is ninety years old.
adjective
(of a person, animal or thing) that is ninety years old.
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P&J Live will host The Big Nineties Festival in October.
Head of entertainment, exhibitions and marketing at P&J Live Louise Stewart said: "We are looking forward to bringing the Big Nineties Festival to Aberdeen.
| MAC Big Brow Pencil in Spiked, PS16 (maccosmetics.co.uk) TAME YOUR TAN BACK in the Nineties, before Instagram, the Kardashians and the rise of the YouTube make-up tutorial, contouring wasn't 'a thing' | Left: Givenchy Les Saisons Healthy Glow Powder in Ambre Saison, PS36 (houseoffraser.co.uk) Right: Illamasqua Beyond Powder in Epic, PS32 (available April 21; illamasqua.com) and bronzer was applied liberally with a huge brush, the aim being an all-over tan, as if you'd just returned from two weeks in Miami.
| MAC Big Brow Pencil in Spiked, PS16 (maccosmetics.co.uk) TAME YOUR TAN BACK in the Nineties, before Instagram, the Kardashians and the rise of the YouTube make-up tutorial, contouring wasn't 'a thing' and bronzer was applied liberally with a huge brush, the aim being an all-over tan, as if you'd just returned from two weeks in Miami.
We lost count of the number of make-up artists citing influences from those hazy pre-Millennium days, but, thinking back, is Nineties make-up really something we want to bring back - all that lip gloss and bronzer?
Sinking the whole of India, especially his home town Mumbai, in sorrow, Sachin Tendulkar got out in his nineties yet again.
Reconstructing that intricate history in their latest film, Ballets Russes, documentarians Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine lovingly cobbled together three elements: photos and films of dancing from about 1930 to about 1960; atmospheric filler shots intended to evoke times past (scratchy footage of Big Ben chiming nine, Hitler at a rally, a close-up of the wheels of a steam train); and interviews with surviving members of the Ballets Russes companies, most of them in their eighties or nineties. The filmmakers present their work as a history in which the interviews with elderly people are included only for the information they give about the past.
57 East 54th Street, long the home of Bill's Nineties Restaurant (formerly Bill's Gay Nineties), has been sold to an Irish businessman for $4,250,000.