1940S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1940s mean? 

• 1940S (noun)
  The noun 1940S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1940 to 1949

  Familiarity information: 1940S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 1940S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1940 to 1949

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1940s; forties

Hypernyms ("1940s" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Derived from Wistar stock by the laboratory of Dr. Lewis at the Wistar Institute in the 1940s and 1950s, the Lewis is a white albino rat with genotype a, TyrC.

(Lewis, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

In the 1940s, S. aureus infections were treated with compounds called β-lactams (penicillins).

(Antibiotic Combinations May Combat MRSA Infections, NIH)

In the BAS study, scientists obtained seabed sediment cores from beneath the floating part of Pine Island Glacier, which revealed a cavity had formed beneath the shelf prior to the mid-1940s.

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

RAI, which has been used widely in the United States for the treatment of hyperthyroidism since the 1940s, is one of three commonly used treatments for hyperthyroidism.

(Long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism, National Institutes of Health)

The present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest shrinking glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, may have already been underway as early as the 1940s, according to findings from an international research team led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)