twenties

También una forma de twentyplural of twenty

The third decade of a century: the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.

My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by the twenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120s BCE.

The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.

The waiter was in his twenties.

1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.

The range between 20 and 29.

She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.

From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

That bob haircut makes you look so twenties.

It tells the life of a Sicilian peasant girl, Teresa, who is brought to a village in Provence just after the First World War; is adopted by two very "twenties" lesbian ladies, one American, one English, who rebuild, maintain, and allow to decay, an old house called the Bishop's Palace.

Old photos show her in typical twenties styles—tight-fitting black dresses with lace, low-slung wide belts, large ornamental pins on her equally large bodice, funny hats with feathers.