1940s

English

Alternative forms

• 1940's

Noun

1940s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1940 to 1949.
   • 2009, Stanley S.K. Kwan, Nicole Kwan, “New China”, in The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)‎^[1], Hong Kong University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:

     His knowledge of both Hong Kong and the Mainland made a deep impression on me during the hour we spent over lunch. Huang had learned Cantonese from his wife, who studied Chinese medicine in Guangzhou during the 1940s, and now owned a Chinese herbal medicine shop in the Yau Ma Ti district.

Synonyms

• '40s, 40s, forties

Translations

the decade from 1940 to 1949 — see forties

See also

decades in English (edit)