1840s
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- noun
- The comedy show's burlesque twist dates back to the 1840s, when comedy and burlesque went hand in hand.
- the late 1840s
- the early 1840s
- 1830s and 1840s
Examples
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By the 1840s, full-color printed covers related to the book's theme had become a regular sight at bookstores.
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Protestant and Catholic Irish worked together, too, on local government bodies in the 1840s.
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Most of these events really happened, too, in a small town in Missouri in the 1840s.
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My father's side arrived in the 1840s but were absorbed by the Canadian people.
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The first paper bags manufactured commercially are said to have been made in Bristol, England, in the 1840s.
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Even in the 1840s, people were pamphleteering for abolition.
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Because cotton prices dipped in the early 1840s and a considerable amount of cotton land was exhausted, Georgia farmers grew other products.
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By the 1840s, the majority of its members had likewise bid adieu to southwest Georgia and middle Florida.
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Another donor in the 1840s was Richard Robert Madden, a fiery Irish abolitionist.
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During the 1840s, many new inventions emerged, shaping the future of technology.
Surface Forms
Morphology
1840s = 1840 (transparent) = 1840 + s
Formed by the numeral '1840' with the plural/decade marker '-s' to denote the decade 1840–1849, a straightforward numeric formation.
Etymology
1840S is just the year 1840 with a -s added to mean 'a group of years', like 1990s or 1980s. It means the ten years from 1840 to 1849, so we use it when talking about the events, people, or culture of that time.