2000s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞o 'thouzəndz
ipa: /tuː ˈθaʊ.zəndz/
ipa: /ˌtuː ˈθaʊ.zənd.ziːz/
Forms: form: two thousands
form: two-thousandsies
Senses: examples: text: Prominent in the 1980s and 1990s for the part it played in Postmodernism and then in Deconstruction, in the 2000s AD has leveraged a depth and level of scrutiny not currently offered elsewhere in the design press.
ref: 2008, Julieanna Preston, Interior Atmospheres, Academy Press, →ISBN:
text: When asked about how many planes Epstein owned […] [Maxwell] answered "in the '90s he had one plane and at some point in the 2000s he had two planes," demonstrating a clear understanding of how decades are described.
ref: 2021 February 5, Jacob Shamsian, “Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers say an indictment should be thrown out because she wasn't sure what 'sexual activities' meant during a deposition”, in Insider:
glosses: The decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.
examples: text: The people of the late 19th century approached the 20th with the same awe with which we see the 2000s.
ref: 1980, Peter Luck, This Fabulous Century, page 7:
text: The converted code will be able to handle dates that span centuries (1800s, 1900s, and 2000s at least).
ref: 1996, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, page 476:
text: In the first decade of the 2000s, there was a significant increase in traffic as a result of a Europe - wide liberalization of air transport activities, cheap tickets offered by low - cost airlines and the related price competition.
ref: 2011, Központi Statisztikai Hivatal, Gyula Holka, Mónika Freid, Statistics of Centuries: Statistical Curios in Hungarian History, page 153:
text: The 1900s and 2000s are centuries that highlight without question the ability of the federal government to advocate elite-class dominance over the laborers equivalent to those of the great empires in world history.
ref: 2012, C.U.Liberties, “History”, in America Gone, Xlibris, →ISBN, “Centuries of Hardships, Wars, and Political Slavery”, page 55:
text: TABLE 1.2.1d Homicide Rates in Asian and Oceanic Countries. / Rates per 100,000 | Centuries / 1900s | 2000s
ref: 2019, Lee Ellis, David P. Farrington, Anthony W. Hoskin, “Homicide Rates”, in Handbook of Crime Correlates, 2nd edition, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: The century that began on January 1, 2000 and ends on December 31, 2099.
examples: text: What Roman numeral might you find in the cornerstone of a building built in the year 2000? MM – the mark of the new millennium, a move from the 1000s to the 2000s.
ref: 1999, Larry Dane Brimner, The Official M&M’s Book of the Millennium, Charlesbridge, →ISBN:
text: The current four-phase American cycle started in the days immediately following World War II with the First Turning of the Millennial Cycle, so named because it would bridge America from one millennium (the 1000s) to the next (the 2000s).
ref: 2009, Tom Osenton, “Repeating Cycles in American History”, in Boomer Density: Leading the U.S. through the Worst Crisis Since the Great Depression, Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, “The Current American Cycle—the Millennial Cycle”, page 32:
text: Only instead of cobwebs, my distraction was thoughts about the coming new millennium—the 2000s.[…]Supported by the reappearance of the decade-number 1, during that decade, the decade just finished, we saw the waning masculine-energy of the 1000s doing all it could to hang on to its power and dominance.
ref: 2020 November, Kashonia Carnegie, “From Me2We: The Unrecognized Key to the Rise in the Status of Women and why it’s Essential that Men Know About this Too”, in Maryam Morrison, editor, The Eden Magazine, pages 19–20:
glosses: The millennium that began on January 1, 2000 and ends on December 31, 2999.
Related terms: two thousand and late
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