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1760s

1760s

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A decade from 1760 to 1769
  • noun
: década de 1760
  • 11 missionaries who first entered the Cherokee Nation in the 1760s encouraged the reconfiguring of Cherokee families.
  • the late 1760s
  • the early 1760s
  • the 1750s and 1760s

Examples

  • Trouble had been growing between Britain and its American colonies since the 1760s.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • There were still some buffalo left in Kentucky when Daniel Boone explored there in the late 1760s.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The Royal Society set aside the political tensions of the late 1760s and sent their respects to the colonials.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The French and English wars in North America lasted until the 1760s, as did their military conflicts with the Micmac.

    Academic text (2002)
  • What came to be the state of Vermont was settled by Euro-Americans in the early 1760s.

    Academic text (2018)
  • As the 1760s progressed, his marriage and gift-giving allowed him to extend his leader/follower network into Ohio Country.

    Academic text (1993)
  • West Indian goods brought high prices and ensured planters in the region steady profits throughout most of the 1760s and 1770s.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington recorded visits to a Williamsburg coffeehouse in the 1760s, and it seems likely this was the establishment they patronized.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Instrumental in tying Georgia to the trans-Atlantic community in the early 1760s, these merchants stood at the heart of two rich ironies.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The two, along with other siblings, had first come here from Connecticut in the 1760s.

Surface Forms

1760s plural

Morphology

1760s = 1760 (transparent) = 1760 + s

The form is a numeral with a plural marker indicating the decade; learners who recognise '1760' will readily understand '1760s'.

Etymology

1760S names the decade from 1760 to 1769. The -s is the same plural 's' we use in words like 'cats', and it shows the word means a group of 'years' rather than one year. So, when you see 1760s, think 'the years 1760 to 1769'.