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▸ noun:  the decade from 1940 to 1949

Similar:
1930s, 1950s, 1910s, 1840s, forties, 1920s, 1890s, 2040s, 1740s, 1790s, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, futuristic, current, digital

Types:
forties, more...

Phrases:
1940s in film, Boxing in the 1940s, more...

Adjectives:
late, early, middle, mid, postwar, pre, post, wartime, turbulent, torn, tumultuous



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Similar:
1930s, 1950s, 1910s, 1840s, forties, 1920s, 1890s, 2040s, 1740s, 1790s, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, futuristic, current, digital

Types:
forties, more...

Phrases:
1940s in film, Boxing in the 1940s, more...

Adjectives:
late, early, middle, mid, postwar, pre, post, wartime, turbulent, torn, tumultuous



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