noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A decade running from the first year of a century to the tenth. humorous, plural, plural-only, rare

Synonyms

All synonyms

2000s2000s (21st century)noughtiesnoughties

Etymology

Perhaps from nought and eighties.

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