1940s
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- noun
:
los años cuarenta
- Especially since the 1940s, large numbers of pleasure boats have traversed the bay.
- late 1940s
- early 1940s
- 1940s and 1950s
Examples
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But all that happened in the 1940s.
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In the 1940s, church leaders and cultural conservatives rallied together around a solemn mission: to safeguard the country's youth against the degenerate music that was being piped in from America.
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All these uniforms are from the 1940s.
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Interest appears to have waned in the 1940s, and no further acquisitions were made.
Academic text (1999) -
I recently came across an old, faded, sepia-toned 1940s photo of Mom and Aunt Rose.
Fiction book (1999) -
We live in old Navy housing bungalows which were built in the 1940s and 50s.
Fiction book (1995) -
Young Nixon, in his Navy uniform, is campaigning in California in the 1940s against Voorhis and Douglas.
Fiction book (1995) -
The dayroom clouded, becoming blue like a 1940s bar filled with jazz and tobacco smoke.
Fiction book (1996) -
Many significant events occurred in the 1940s, especially due to the impact of World War II.
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During the 1940s, fashion trends began to evolve rapidly as society changed after the war.
Synonyms
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A decade from 1940 to 1949 in the 20th century
Surface Forms
Morphology
1940s = 1940 (transparent) = 1940 + s
The suffix '-s' denotes plurality, indicating the decade.
Etymology
1940S names the decade from 1940 to 1949 and is formed from the year number 1940 plus the ending -s, which makes it a 'group of years' just like 1980s or the 90s. So, when people talk about the 1940s they mean the events, fashion, or life from those years.