1890s
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- 90s, nineties, Nineties (abbreviation; nowadays, however, mostly referring to the 1990s rather than the 1890s)
- eighteen-nineties
Noun
[edit]1890s pl (plural only)
- The period from year 1890 to (the end of) year 1899; almost the same period as the 10th (and last) decade of the 19th century, which, however, was the years 1891 to 1900.
- Synonyms: (American English) Gay Nineties, (British English) Naughty Nineties, Roaring Nineties
- 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:
- The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
- 2005, Miriam R. Levin, Cultures of Control, page 96:
- The new hygienism beginning in the 1890s, on the other hand, dealt with the most private and intimate: clothing, the bedroom, personal cleanliness.
- 2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94:
- […] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings.