# 1990s
## English
### Alternative forms

* 1990's
* 90s/'90s (abbreviation)

### Pronunciation

* ("nineteen-nineties")
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnaɪn.tiːnˈnaɪn.tiːz/
** (General American) IPA: /ˈnaɪn.tinˈnaɪn.tiz/, [ˈnaɪn.tʰinˈnaɪɾ̃iz]

### Noun

1990s pl (plural only)
* The period from year 1990 to 1999; almost the same period as the 10th (and last) decade of the 20th century, which, however, was from 1991 to (the end of) year 2000
** 1967 February 16, Space Seed (Star Trek), season 1, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television:KIRK: We're reading it, Lieutenant. I thought you said it couldn't possibly be an Earth vessel. SPOCK: I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong. KIRK: An emotional Earth weakness of mine. There it is. KIRK: An old Earth vessel, similar to the DY-500 class. SPOCK: Much older. DY-100 class, to be exact. Captain, the last such vessel was built centuries ago, back in the 1990s. KIRK: Then it's a derelict, its signal left on automatic. SPOCK: Or an old Earth ship being used by aliens.
** 2008, Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang, “Back from the brink: resolving Taiwan's environmental problems”, in Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108‎:That programme, begun in the early 1990s, cost billions of Taiwan dollars, but eventually tamed the river, especially because of the Yuanshanzih flood diversion tunnel (sluiceway), which helps redirect run-off from the upper reaches of the river to the sea on the north-east coast, thus saving the often flooded townships of Rueifang and Hsichih (Sijhih)⁷ when future typhoons and heavy rains hit the area.

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### See also

| 13th century | 1200s · 1210s · 1220s · 1230s · 1240s · 1250s · 1260s · 1270s · 1280s · 1290s |
| 14th century | 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s |
| 15th century | 1400s · 1410s · 1420s · 1430s · 1440s · 1450s · 1460s · 1470s · 1480s · 1490s |
| 16th century | 1500s · 1510s · 1520s · 1530s · 1540s · 1550s · 1560s · 1570s · 1580s · 1590s |
| 17th century | 1600s · 1610s · 1620s · 1630s · 1640s · 1650s · 1660s · 1670s · 1680s · 1690s |
| 18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
| 19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
| 20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
| 21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
| 22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
| 23rd century | 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s |
| Decade only | 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
| Decade only | '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s |
| Decade only | 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's |
| Decade only | zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties |
| Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |

### Further reading

* “1990s” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

### Anagrams

* 1099s