Usually means: Decade of prosperity, culture, and change.
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▸ noun:  the decade from 1950 to 1959

Similar:
1960s, 1940s, 1970s, 1930s, 1920s, 1980s, 1900s, 1880s, 1890s, 1990s, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, futuristic, current, progressive

Types:
1950's, 1950s decade, more...

Phrases:
1950s quiz show scandals, 1950s in film, 1950s American automobile culture, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1950s, 1950s Texas drought, more...

Adjectives:
late, early, middle, mid, latter, prosperous, turbulent, postwar, placid, repressive, quiescent



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Similar:
1960s, 1940s, 1970s, 1930s, 1920s, 1980s, 1900s, 1880s, 1890s, 1990s, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, futuristic, current, progressive

Types:
1950's, 1950s decade, more...

Phrases:
1950s quiz show scandals, 1950s in film, 1950s American automobile culture, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1950s, 1950s Texas drought, 1950s in Hong Kong, Las Vegas in the 1950s, more...

Adjectives:
late, early, middle, mid, latter, prosperous, turbulent, postwar, placid, repressive, quiescent



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