1790s
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- noun
- Elsewhere in the 1790s, the hierarchies of text and spoken words operate differently.
- the early 1790s
- the late 1790s
- cases from the 1790s
Examples
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Robinson's politics in the 1790s are complex and shifting, and her writing registers this.
Academic text (2016) -
On the grassroots level, white Virginians in the 1790s increasingly treated the manumission of slaves like a civic sin.
Academic text (2001) -
Philadelphia, for example, received around five thousand Caribbean refugees during the 1790s.
Academic text (2016) -
In the 100 years after the 1790s, about three-quarters of the forests in the United States were cleared.
Academic text (1990) -
Holdings near Leeds remained small, and demand forced up prices and rents during the 1790s.
Academic text (1993) -
Acerbi, in the later 1790s, seems caught between two cultural epochs.
Academic text (1996) -
In the 1790s, an influx of German Jewish merchants created a core of affluent, educated individuals.
Academic text (1999) -
In the 1790s, here at the University of Pavia, almost certainly in this lecture theatre, which still bears his name, Volta began his search for the new source of electricity.
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Joseph Coope, who took over his family's stall at the Leeds mixed cloth hall in the 1790s, summed up the clannish feeling.
Academic text (1993) -
In the early 1790s, Jefferson switched to growing wheat, a crop that required a completely different strategy.
Surface Forms
Morphology
1790s = 1790 (transparent) = 1790 + s
The suffix '-s' is a standard plural marker indicating a decade.
Etymology
1790S is simply the number 1790 plus -s to show the group of years from 1790 to 1799. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the 1990s or the '90s, because the -s means 'years', so 1790s is the ten-year period starting in 1790.