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1940's

1940's is the alternative form of 1940s.

Meaning of 1940s

Noun

1940s pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The decade from 1940 to 1949.
    • His knowledge of both Hong Kong and the Mainland made a deep impression on me during the hour we spent over lunch. Huang had learned Cantonese from his wife, who studied Chinese medicine in Guangzhou during the 1940s, and now owned a Chinese herbal medicine shop in the Yau Ma Ti district.2009, Stanley S.K. Kwan, Nicole Kwan, “New China”, in The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series), Hong Kong University Press, published 2011, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    '40s, 40s, forties

Questions about 1940's

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1940's is the alternative form of 1940s.

Words near 1940's in the dictionary

  1. 1910s
  2. 1920's
  3. 1920s
  4. 1930's
  5. 1930s
  6. 1940's
  7. 1940s
  8. 1950's
  9. 1950s
  10. 1960's
  11. 1960s

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