1850s
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- noun
- In the 1850s, thousands went West to find a fortune in gold.
- the early 1850s
- the late 1850s
- the realignment of the 1850s
Examples
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In the early 1850s, Brown moved to Augusta, making the city his permanent residence.
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The first Finnish immigrants came to Australia in the 1850s to work in the gold mines of Victoria.
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In the 1850s, a new School of History and Literature was opened.
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The decade of the 1850s also brought with it significant improvements in theatrical space and comfort.
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Letters of emigrants in the 1850s describe the changes.
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In the late 1850s, hundreds of Chinese immigrants came to our shores to help work the claims.
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Despite the scientific advancements that have occurred since the 1850s, the quality of care in the United States remains suboptimal.
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Among those arriving in Savannah during the 1850s was Richard Burke, who soon learned to stow cotton.
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There was a brief reemergence of the silk industry, and in the 1850s a few Augusta farmers grew sorghum cane.
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During the 1850s, many social reform movements gained momentum in the United States.
Surface Forms
Morphology
1850s = 1850 (transparent) = 1850 + s
The form is a year (1850) with the standard plural/decade marker '-s', so learners who recognise the year will understand it denotes the decade.
Etymology
The word 1850s is the simple way English names a decade: you take the year 1850 and add s, like a plural, to mean the whole ten-year period. So the 1850s means the years from '1850' to '1859'.