nineties
noun/ˈnaɪntiz/
Frequency rank: #11,303 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
the decade spanning the years 90 to 99, especially 1990 to 1999.
Example sentence
My grandmother loves music from the nineties, especially pop songs she heard as a young woman.
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