1940s

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Noun

1940s pl (plural only)

  1. The decade from 1940 to 1949.
    • 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, →OCLC, page 135:
      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.

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the decade from 1940 to 1949 — see forties

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decades in English (edit)
22nd century 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
21st century 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
20th century 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
19th century 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
18th century 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
14th century 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s
Decade only 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Nicknames Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
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