twenties
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- noun
- /ˈtwɛntiˌiz/
:
los años veinte
- "The Diamond Pit" gave us one look at the Roaring Twenties in this issue.
- the Roaring Twenties
- twenties and thirties
- late twenties
Examples
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My father never told me he took a trip to Cuba back in the twenties.
Fiction book (2001) -
Of all the father figures who guided New York's taste from the twenties on, Mumford was my favorite.
Academic text (1998) -
His studio was in the West Twenties near the highway.
Fiction book (1995) -
One of those great old cottages from the twenties, right on the river.
Fiction book (2000) -
Anyway, in the twenties, my mother lived with her mother in South Bend, Indiana.
Fiction book (2001) -
Some say there was a honky-tonk there in the twenties called "The Jump."
Fiction book (2002) -
We eased through Hope Valley, passing very substantial houses that had been built in the twenties and thirties.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Roaring Twenties ended when the country slid into recession in the summer of 1929.
Academic text (2017) -
While most other countries were booming during the Roaring Twenties, the British economy limped along.
Academic text (2011) -
The Roaring twenties was known for its cultural dynamism and social change.
Synonyms
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A ten-year period from 1920 to 1929 that saw big cultural change
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word twenties also names the decade 1920 to 1929 because it uses the twenty part of each year, the '20' in '1920' to '1929', so people call the whole period the 'twenties'.