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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 1929
Familiarity information: 1920S used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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...):
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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