No one actually has 1 name for it yet but here are eight names people call it: the two thousand, the oh's(0's),the zeros, the oughts, the naughts, oh oh's(00's),the turn of the century/ millennium, or the (insert adjective or noun) decade.
A decade.
Its called a century! century means 100 years and decade means 10 years
10 years is a decade.
In a decade there is 10 years. LUSTRUM - is 5 years DECADE - is 10 years CENTURY - is 100 years. MILLENNIUM - is 1000 years.
For 1915, the decade was the 1910s and the century was the 20th.
A decade.
A decade
decade
The year 2009 was in the 2000s.
A decade :D
My grandmother referred to the first decade of the 1900's as the "oughts". It's a catchy term and I think it should be used for the first decade of 2000.
1940's
1920's
They would be seventy years old.
There is no single word to describe 5 years. You could call it half a decade I suppose.
yes
It's often referrd to as a decade - from the word deci - meaning ten.