1700s

Noun

1700s pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) The period from year 1700 to 1799, almost the same period as the 18th century (which, however, was from 1701 to 1800).
   • When Nakanishi became the headmaster of his own ryu, in the later 1700s, he began looking for a way to make swordsmanship less hazardous, concentrating on the improvement of practice equipment.1982 April, Dave Lowry, “Jutsu and Do: The Art and the Way; Part II”, in Black Belt, page 37, column 2
   • Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added.2002, Greg Patent, Baking in America, page 159
2. (plural, plural-only) The years 1700 to 1709, almost the same period as the 1st decade of the 18th century (which, however, was from 1701 to 1710).
   • Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in...2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian