Word info

'40s

Conjunction

Meaning

Abbreviation of and.

(dated) Abbreviation of et in borrowed Latin phrases such as et cetera.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent. Grace Jones

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s. Emilie de Ravin

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. Fred Savage

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on. Harold Prince

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know? Julian Sands

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s. Parker Stevenson

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