1920s
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- noun
- /ˈnaɪnˈtɛntiˌtwɛntiːz/
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década de 1920
- The room is old and sloping, built in the 1920s and not yet renovated.
- late 1920s
- early 1920s
- live in the 1920s
Examples
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The 1920s was a time of great social change, with flappers and jazz music defining the decade.
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In the early 1920s, JP Morgan, one of the most influential bankers of his day, caused massive panic in the markets by spreading rumors that many private banks were about to go bankrupt.
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In the 1920s, things really turned modern.
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Perhaps the decades of the 1920s and 1930s would be a logical place to begin.
Academic text (1990) -
The RUC, the police, was created in the early 1920s.
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From there, Broadway sorted to a height of activity in the 1920s.
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I live in the smallest house on the block, a 1920s clapboard cottage-style home.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the 1920s, my company had a cross-promotion with a "very prominent" soda company, and Santa Claus became bigger than ever.
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Thus, the psychological investment in the automobile, well-begun in the 1920s, was more than a symbolic flaunting of wealth.
Academic text (1999) -
Gloria Lacy was born in Nassau in the prosperous 1920s and raised during the depression that followed.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
1920s = 1920 (transparent) = 1920 + s
The decade name is transparently formed by the numeral for the year plus the pluralizing '-s' to indicate the decade.
Etymology
1920S is simply the number 1920 with the ending -s, which means 'the years of 1920 to 1929'. So, 1920s names that decade and its famous social and cultural changes, often called the Roaring Twenties.