1600s

1600s noun: the decade from 1600 to 1609.

Noun

1600s pl (plural only)

(plural, plural-only) The decade from 1600 to 1609.
(plural, plural-only) The century between 1600 and 1699.
- After the 1600s, the discourse on affects becomes confused with musical rhetoric: think of the first list of musicorhetorical figures published by Burmeister (1599), […]2013, Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, Klaus R. Scherer, The Emotional Power of Music
- However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.2020 January 7, Chloé Hilliard, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 131

The original flips, concocted in the late 1600s, were made with beer, rum, sugar and whole egg, and served hot.2020 August 14, Rebekah Peppler, “Beer Truly Is the Champagne of Cocktails”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Aug...
It took an 876-page view of China’s history from the decline of the Ming dynasty in the 1600s to the democracy movement of 1989.2021 December 27, Neil Genzlinger, “Jonathan Spence, Noted China Scholar, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

What does 1600s mean?: 1600s means the decade from 1600 to 1609.
How do you use 1600s in a sentence?: The original flips, concocted in the late 1600s, were made with beer, rum, sugar and whole egg, and served hot.
What part of speech is 1600s?: 1600s is a noun.

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