1860s
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- noun
- /ˈeɪtiˈsɪkθs/
- College football, for example, began in the late 1860s following English customs.
- the early 1860s
- the late 1860s
- the 1860s and 1870s
Examples
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Long before the 1860s, however, the Catholic royalist reaction had received a decisive setback in France.
Academic text (1995) -
A rise in local prices occurred in the 1860s, perhaps in response to railroad building through the area.
Academic text (1991) -
But what were national bank notes in the 1860s?
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There was another Civil Rights Movement, this one in the 1860s, and it was led by the Republican Party.
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Back in the actual 1860s, all this land was theirs.
Fiction book (1992) -
The dark days of the 1860s, however, soon gave way to a more promising decade.
Academic text (2008) -
A second peak associated with settlement occurred during the 1860s, with the expansion of the railroads.
Academic text (1991) -
The illustrations by Thomas Nast in the 1860s fixed the appearance of Santa Claus.
Academic text (1990) -
Hard clamming was an important fishery in the bay from the 1860s to 1961, when pollution nearly ended it.
Academic text (1990) -
Social changes during the 1860s significantly shaped modern American society.
Surface Forms
Morphology
1860s = 1860 (transparent) = 1860 + s
The form is simply the numeral '1860' with a plural '-s' marking the decade (1860–1869), which is directly recognizable to learners familiar with numerals and decade notation.
Etymology
1860S is a short way to name the ten years from 1860 to 1869. The -s at the end shows a 'group' of years, just like in 1960s or 1990s, so 1860s means that whole decade.