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1920S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1920s mean? 

1920S (noun)
  The noun 1920S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1920 to 1929play

  Familiarity information: 1920S used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


1920S (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1920 to 1929

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1920s; twenties

Hypernyms ("1920s" is a kind of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)


 Context examples 


A study from the 1920s suggested that humans could discern about 10,000 smells—a number far below our other senses.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)



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