Recent Examples on the WebThe company’s policy of military-historical accuracy prohibits it from making inauthentic garments; actual MA-1 flight jackets, produced for about twenty years, starting in the late nineteen-fifties, were sage green. Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019 When researchers first visited, in the late nineteen-fifties, there were no bats present in December and January, and yet, according to the data, there are now fifty thousand or more bats emerging during the winter. Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019 Celebrity News Twenty nineteen could prove to be Taylor Swift's biggest year yet. Abby Gardner, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2019 What to do with recent ruins, whether to reconstruct or replace or revere or remove them, was a prevailing design dilemma of the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties. Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2017 In the nineteen-fifties, Louis Marx & Company began producing figurines of every U.S. President. Don Steinberg, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
Word History
Etymology
Middle English nynetene, adjective, from Old English nigontēne, from nigon + -tīene (akin to Old English tīen ten) — more at ten
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of nineteen was before the 12th century