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This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2000 (or, technically, 2001), see the links below.

Millennia: 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium

Centuries:
20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:

1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s

Years:

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

The decade as a whole

  • In keeping with naming decades (cf. 1990s "the Nineties", 1980s "the Eighties", etc.), the decade of the 2000s lacks an accepted name. A widely accepted term may not come about until the decade has ended. However no such term exists for the decades of the 1900s and 1910s. A few suggestions for the 2000s decade are:
    • "the Twenty-O's" (pronounced; twenty-ohs) or "the Oh's". For example, the year 2005 would be pronounced as "twenty-oh-five," instead of "two-thousand five."
    • "the 0-0s", usually pronounced as "the oh-ohs". This pronunciation sounds like "uh oh", an expression of dismay; this similarity is no doubt intentional.
    • "the 2Ks", a term that is rooted in the slang of the times. K is shorthand for the Greek prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K means 2000. In popular culture, the years of the decade are already being named according to this slang. For example, the year 2003 is referred to as 2K3. The "2K" term probably has its popular origins in the heavily-hyped Y2K bug that began in 1999, and lasted into this decade.
    • "the Aughts" (or "Oughts"), keeping with the practice of the twentieth century.
    • "the Nillies", derived from the term "nil", meaning nothing or zero.
    • "the Noughties", referring to the nought, or zero, as the decade indicator; the word-play on "naughty" is intentional.
    • "the Twenty Hundreds", though this could be confused with a name for the century.
    • "the zeroes",
    • "the double-O's"
    • "the 0-Hundreds"
  • The United Nations General Assembly declared the (mostly overlapping) decade of 2001-2010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World".
    • "the two thousands", simply 2000s instead of stressing the last two numbers of the first year of the decade e.g. 2000s instead of just 00's.

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People

World leaders

State leaders by year: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006...

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See also

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