1920s

Noun

Meaning

the decade from 1920 to 1929

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

twenties Roaring Twenties Jazz Age prohibition era 20s '20s flapper era the great gatsby period the jazz era the prohibition period the roaring decade the age of excess the speakeasy years the age of prosperity the art deco period

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Hypernyms

decade decennary decennium

Examples

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s. Barack Obama

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication. David Hockney

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam. Daniel Pipes

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas. Edmund Wilson

No authors propounded the ideas of economic liberalism in Sweden during the 1920s as vigorously as did Cassel and Heckscher, and in addition they certainly helped in no mean degree to give actual policy a liberal stamp during that decade. Bertil Ohlin

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. David Rockefeller

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