1980S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1980s mean? 

• 1980S (noun)
  The noun 1980S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1980 to 1989

  Familiarity information: 1980S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 1980S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1980 to 1989

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1980s; eighties

Hypernyms ("1980s" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Measurements by NASA’s Pioneer mission to Venus in the 1980s first suggested Venus originally may have had an ocean.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

Immense dark storms on Neptune were first discovered in the late 1980s by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

Until the 1980s, most deaths from CF occurred in children and teenagers.

(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

In the early 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, patients rarely lived longer than a few years.

(HIV/AIDS Medicines, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

In fact, some of its stars were first observed in the mid-1980s with the Infrared Astronomical Survey (IRAS), a joint mission between NASA, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

Most medications available today for the treatment of heart failure were developed in the 1980s and have their effect outside of the heart cell.

(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)

Since the 1980s, hundreds of reports have associated Alzheimer’s with bacteria and viruses.

(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

In the late 1980s, tiny Varroa mites began to spread through bee colonies in the United States.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Local Bubble was discovered gradually in the 1970s and 1980s.

(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)

This feature was discovered by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s and has been studied for decades; a long-lasting wave potentially tied to Saturn's rotation, it is a type of phenomenon also seen on Earth, as in the Polar Jet Stream.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)