What is another word for the first ten years of a century?

Question

Like you would say "the nineteen twenties" for that particular decade, what do you call the first ten years? I'm pretty sure there is a term for it, but I don't know what it is.

Answer 1

I have heard it called the nineteen-oughts, but not very often. Usually they just refer to it as the turn of the century. So far I haven't heard them call it anything specific for the 2000 - 2009 period. Twenty-oughts has an odd sound to it. But then so does twenty-tens, twenty-twenties....

Answer 2

I know what you mean (some other replyers obviously don't). I don't know if there is a specific term for it. You could say "the early nineteen hundreds". But what you could say for the first decade of the 21st century, I don't know.

Answer 3

Its the "twenty first century" right now. The beginnings of centuries are also numbered.there is 10 decades in a century

Answer 4

"In the first decade of the nineteen hundreds"...

Answer 5

I think it is a decade, or maybe you could say an era.

Answer 6

decade.