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1860s

1860s noun: the decade from 1860 to 1869.

Noun

1860s pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The decade from 1860 to 1869.
    • Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305
    • In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia

Questions about 1860s

What does 1860s mean?
1860s means the decade from 1860 to 1869.
What part of speech is 1860s?
1860s is a noun.

Words near 1860s in the dictionary

  1. 1810s
  2. 1820s
  3. 1830s
  4. 1840s
  5. 1850s
  6. 1860s
  7. 18650
  8. 18650s
  9. 187
  10. 1870s
  11. 1880s

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