1900s

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪn.tiːnˈhʌn.dɹədz/ ("nineteen hundreds")

Noun

1900s (uncountable)

1. A period that began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999; almost the same period as the 20th century (which, however, was from year 1901 to 2000)
   • 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha’s Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

     LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language.

2. A period that began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1909; almost the same period as the 1st decade of the 20th century, which, however, was from year 1901 to (the end of) 1910.

   Synonym: noughties

   • 1981, Donald F. Klein, Judith G. Rabkin, Anxiety: new research and changing concepts:

     Now, you know that the classical analytical explanation of agoraphobia of the early 1900s was that it represented a street phobia because the patient equated streetwalking with prostitutional activity […]

   • 2010 May 3, Don Morrison, “The Capture of Shanghai”, in Time:

     There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera.

See also

decades in English (edit)