forties
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- noun
- /ˈfɔːrtiz/
:
los años cuarenta
- Many historical events, such as World War II, shaped American culture during the Forties.
Examples
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What with the difficulty of organizing one's thoughts in such circumstances, I caught myself hopping up from scene to scene, person to person, and place to place—and I finally managed to concentrate on those formative years of the second half of the Forties, some of my peers and elders at the time, and the general atmosphere of "tolerance" in which we moved, read, loved, and just plain lived.
Fiction book (1994) -
They walked up Park Avenue and then drifted west towards the diamond district in the Forties.
Fiction book (2002) -
Illustrated kid stories from the Forties and Fifties.
Fiction book (1996) -
Lara as an Institution: The Forties
Academic text (1996) -
The Thirties and Forties; they painted landscapes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The New York School of painting, as the movement was also called, started in the Forties and flourished until 1956 when Jackson
Academic text (2001) -
In the late Forties and early Fifties, American constitutional federalism was already becoming a de facto nullity.
Blog text (2) -
As Nazih Ayubi wrote in 1991, "... unlike the Forties and Fifties, the manifestos and action programs of the Islamic movements are currently almost completely void of any socio-economic visions or prescriptions."
Academic text (1995) -
The music of the Forties is often celebrated for its unforgettable melodies and lyrics.
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In the Forties, television began to change the way people consumed entertainment and news.
Synonyms
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The decade from 1940 to 1949 that included World War II
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Etymology
Forties comes from the number forty, which literally means 'four tens' made from four and ten. So the forties are the years 1940 to 1949 because we name each ten-year group by its 'forty' part, just like the twenties or thirties.