1900s
- noun
- By the early 1900s, Dublin, a city once known to be among the greatest of the British Empire, has stagnated.
- the early 1900s
- the decade of the 1900s
Examples
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During the early 1900s, however, there existed far more marriages between younger women and older men.
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The early 1900s can be thought of as the age of industry and mechanization.
Academic text (2012) -
That was way back in the 1900s.
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I mean, what is that, from like the 1900s?
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Set in Paris in the early 1900s, Hugo found himself in a difficult situation through no fault of his own.
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In the 1900s, life expectancy used to be 45.
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In the early 1900s, the Italian colonial administration felled large trees to build railways and houses.
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In the early 1900s, some land use planners championed health as a key issue for the planning profession.
Academic text (2008) -
The Bureaucracy Approach was developed in the early 1900s by the German sociologist M. Weber.
Academic text (2011) -
In the 1900s, life expectancy used to be around 45 years.
Surface Forms
Morphology
1900s = 1900 (transparent) = 1900 + s
The form is the base year '1900' with a regular plural/decade marker '-s', so the meaning is directly derived from the base number.
Etymology
1900S is just the number 1900 with the letter s added to show 'years of', so it means the ten years from 1900 to 1909.