1990s

English

Alternative forms

• 1990's
• 90s/'90s (abbreviation)

Pronunciation

• ("nineteen-nineties")
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪn.tiːnˈnaɪn.tiːz/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪn.tinˈnaɪn.tiz/, [ˈnaɪn.tʰinˈnaɪɾ̃iz]

Noun

1990s pl (plural only)

1. The period from year 1990 to 1999; almost the same period as the 10th (and last) decade of the 20th century, which, however, was from 1991 to (the end of) year 2000
   • 1967 February 16, Space Seed (Star Trek), season 1, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television:

     KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel.
     SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.
     KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is.
     KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY-500 class.
     SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s.
     KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic.
     SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.

   • 2008, Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang, “Back from the brink: resolving Taiwan's environmental problems”, in Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108‎^[2]:

     That programme, begun in the early 1990s, cost billions of Taiwan dollars, but eventually tamed the river, especially because of the Yuanshanzih flood diversion tunnel (sluiceway), which helps redirect run-off from the upper reaches of the river to the sea on the north-east coast, thus saving the often flooded townships of Rueifang and Hsichih (Sijhih)⁷ when future typhoons and heavy rains hit the area.

Translations

nineties — see nineties

See also

decades in English (edit)

Further reading

• “1990s” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• 1099s