2020s

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twɛnti ˈtwɛntiz/ ("twenty twenties")
• (less common) IPA^(key): /tuː ˈθaʊzənd (ˌænd) ˈtwɛntiz/ ("two thousand (and) twenties")

Noun

2020s pl (plural only)

1. The period that started on January 1, 2020 and will end on December 31, 2029; almost the same period as the 3rd decade of the 21st century (which, however, started in year 2021 and will end with year 2030).
   • 2020 January 2, David Brooks, “A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them.

   • 2020 June 27, Ross Douthat, “Waking Up in 2030”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     In higher education a similar transformation is being pulled forward: Colleges were expecting a grim landscape in the later 2020s, because 2010s birthrates were so low, but now a decline in foreign enrollment and an acceleration of online learning will threaten marginal state schools and possibly close small liberal-arts colleges much sooner.

   • 2021 June 15, Mike Konczal and J.W. Mason, “How to Have a Roaring 2020s (Without Wild Inflation)”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     To pull off a roaring 2020s, we should prepare to manage a boom, not fight it.

Synonyms

• '20s, 20s, twenties

See also

decades in English (edit)