1940s

Noun

Meaning

the decade from 1940 to 1949

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

forties 40s 1940's '40s the baby boomer generation wwii years the greatest generation the 1940s decade the pre-cold war era the second world war era the war years the wartime era the age of jazz and swing the era of rationing the golden age of hollywood
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Hypernyms

decade decennary decennium

Phrases with the word

the 1940s decade the decade of the 1940s

Examples

When I started worrying about stocks, it was the late 1930s and early 1940s and it didn't seem like a good way to make money then, either. Merton Miller

Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement. Fritjof Capra

You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it. John McCain

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s. Constance Baker Motley

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. Gene Tierney

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war. Ken Mehlman