1950s
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- noun
- /ˈnaɪnˈtɛntiˈfɪftiz/
:
los años cincuenta
- A group of eminent French scientists was concerned that in the 1950s, French research was behind the times.
- early 1950s
- late 1950s
- back in the 1950s
Examples
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From then until the 1950s, she published another novel as well as many short stories.
Fiction book (1994) -
Asking someone about Elvis Presley is likely to elicit memories of the 1950s, "Hound Dog" and "Heartbreak Hotel."
Academic text (2011) -
It's like the 1950s, man!
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Until, you know, the 1950s.
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Now, you guys, you gotta think, this is the 1950s, this was radical!
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In the 1950s, for example, the government was very concerned about sovereignty in the Arctic.
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The money spent on advertising in the United States has increased from just over $5 billion in the 1950s to $240 billion a year today.
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And in the 1950s, thousands of people protested to stop the execution of the Rosenbergs.
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In the 1950s, a Japanese botanist discovered viable lotus seeds in an Ice Age lakebed.
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In the 1950s, many families moved to the suburbs to escape city life.
Synonyms
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2.2
The decade from 1950 to 1959
Surface Forms
Morphology
1950s = 1950 (transparent) = 1950 + s
Formation is the numeral for the year plus the regular plural marker indicating the decade, which learners readily recognize.
Etymology
1950S is simply the year number 1950 with an added -s to mean 'the years of that decade'. So 1950s means the ten years from 1950 to 1959, and you can remember it as a 'family' of years, just like other decades such as the 1990s.