1870s
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- noun
- - It was made in Austria in the 1870s when they were at the height of crystal production.
- the early 1870s
- the late 1870s
- the end of the 1870s
Examples
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By the early 1870s, Fruitland Nursery was recognized as one of the best and largest nurseries in the country.
Academic text (2015) -
The Rational Dress Society first advocated it in the Gazette, their newsletter, in the 1870s.
Academic text (2012) -
Blakeney had spent two years in jail back in the 1870s.
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It's all that's left of the original prison from the 1870s.
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In the 1870s, another Abberwick had made a major advance in steam engine design.
Fiction book (1997) -
From the 1870s to the 1890s, half of the state's farmers were reduced to peonage.
Academic text (2008) -
When women began cycling in the 1870s and 1880s, most were under the chaperonage of a male cycling partner.
Academic text (2012) -
Not until the 1870s was concern recorded about the proliferation of the wild prickly pear.
Academic text (1992) -
Most of the increase that Murken describes came, however, in the 1870s as competition for the emigrant traffic intensified.
Academic text (1993) -
The introduction of electric streetcars in the 1870s transformed urban transportation.
Surface Forms
Morphology
1870s = 1870 (transparent) = 1870 + s
Standard decade formation: the plural marker '-s' on a year denotes the decade (e.g., '1870s' = years 1870–1879), which is directly derivable by learners who know the year and plural '-s'.
Etymology
1870S is simply the year 1870 with a final -s to make a group of years. Think of adding -s like making 'book' into 'books' to show 'more than one', so 1870s means the years from 1870 to 1879 and things from that decade.