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1840S
Dictionary entry overview: What does 1840s mean?
• 1840S (noun)
The noun 1840S has 1 sense:
1. the decade from 1840 to 1849
Familiarity information: 1840S used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The decade from 1840 to 1849
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("1840s" is a kind of...):
Context examples
GM potatoes are also resistant to late blight disease which caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s and which continues to threaten potato crops worldwide.
(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)
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