1800s

English

Noun

1800s

1. (snowboarding) plural of 1800

Noun

1800s pl (plural only)

1. The period from 1800 to 1899, almost the same period as the nineteenth century (which, however, was from year 1801 to 1900).
   • 1996, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, page 476:

     The converted code will be able to handle dates that span centuries (1800s, 1900s, and 2000s at least).

   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎^[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:

     The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.

   • 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     By the mid-1800s, more than 15,000 Americans had experimented with Fourieristic living, many drawn to its promise during a severe economic downturn.

2. The period from 1800 to 1809, almost the same period as the 1st decade of the 19th century (which, however was the years 1801 to 1810).

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decades in English (edit)

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