1850s
1850s noun: the decade from 1850 to 1859.
Noun
1850s pl (plural only)
- The decade from 1850 to 1859.
- Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 832
- Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna[…].2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
Questions about 1850s
- What does 1850s mean?
- 1850s means the decade from 1850 to 1859.
- What part of speech is 1850s?
- 1850s is a noun.
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