1980s
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- noun
- /ˈnaɪnˈteɪtiˌoʊz/
- The college developed the program in the early 1980s primarily for students classified as LD.
- early 1980s
- late 1980s
- mid 1980s
Examples
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Many popular television shows from the 1980s are still beloved today, like 'The Cosby Show' and 'Miami Vice.'
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In the 1980s, the financial industry exploded.
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One of the best examples is my old religious studies book from the 1980s.
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And then somebody mentioned to me that there had already been a legal action in the 1980s by a group of six female directors.
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The cracks in the relationship of Charles and Diana began to appear in the late 1980s.
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The story of U.S. aid to the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s is well known.
Academic text (2011) -
Economic nationalism began to erode in the 1980s and nearly disappeared in the 1990s.
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With democratization in the late 1980s, Rio de Janeiro began a notable if uneven urban renaissance.
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Our team went to the state of Bahia to meet with Ernst Gotsch, a Swiss farmer and researcher that moved to Brazil in the 1980s.
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The fashion trends of the 1980s included bright colors and big hair that defined the decade's style.
Synonyms
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The ten years from 80 to 89 in a century, for example the 1980s
Surface Forms
Morphology
1980s = 1980 (transparent) = 1980 + s
The form '1980' plus the plural suffix '-s' clearly denotes the decade and learners can directly derive the meaning.
Etymology
1980S names the ten years from 1980 to 1989, so it simply points to that whole time period. It works like 1990s or 2000s: adding s means 'all the years in that decade'.