1950s

See also: 1950's

English

Alternative forms

• 1950's

Noun

1950s pl (plural only)

1. The decade beginning in 1950 and ending in 1959.
   • 1978 April 1, “Author Gerassi Speaks on the Parallels Between Boise and Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

     Gerassi discussed the parallels between the witchhunt directed against gay men in Boise during the 1950s and the recent arrests of twelve men charged with sex offenses in Revere.

   • 1998, B. K. Roy Burman, B. G. Verghese, Aspiring to be: the tribal, indigenous condition, page 189:

     Jumming, a particular type of agriculture requiring burning of forest to prepare floor for farming has been prohibited in the Madhupur Garh Forest from the 1950s but continues to be practiced in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

   • 2015, “PFASs in the General Population”, in Jamie C. DeWitt, editor, Toxicological Effects of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Humana Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been manufactured since the 1950s for use as surface protectants for textiles and leather treatment, as protection additives in food packaging and paper products, and in firefighting foams.

Synonyms

• '50s, 50s, fifties

Translations

the decade from 1950 to 1959 — see fifties

See also

decades in English (edit)