Usually means: Decade between nineteen and thirty.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word twenties:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. twenties: Merriam-Webster
  2. twenties: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. twenties, the twenties: Collins English Dictionary
  4. twenties: Vocabulary.com
  5. Twenties, twenties: Wordnik
  6. twenties, the twenties: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. twenties: Wiktionary
  8. twenties: Dictionary.com
  9. twenties: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. The Twenties, Twenties (TV series), Twenties: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Twenties: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. twenties: Rhymezone
  13. Twenties: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. twenties: FreeDictionary.org
  15. twenties: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. twenties: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. twenties: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Twenties: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. twenties: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (twenties)

▸ noun:  The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.
▸ noun:  The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.
▸ noun:  (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 20 and 29.
▸ adjective:  From or evoking the 21st through 30th years of a century (chiefly the 1920s).

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mid-twenties, tens, teens, eighties, nineties, zeroes, seventies, forties, 2020s, 1920s, more...

Opposite:
thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies

Phrases:
the twenties, Roaring Twenties, nineteen twenties, mid twenties, five twenties, more...

Adjectives:
early, late, nineteen, middle, eighteen, mid, five, prosperous, golden, booming, gay



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Similar:
mid-twenties, tens, teens, eighties, nineties, zeroes, seventies, forties, 2020s, 1920s, more...

Opposite:
thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies

Phrases:
the twenties, Roaring Twenties, nineteen twenties, mid twenties, five twenties, The Roaring Twenties, Golden Twenties, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties, sources of twenties, more...

Adjectives:
early, late, nineteen, middle, eighteen, mid, five, prosperous, golden, booming, gay



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