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40s

nounnounattested in dialogue

The decade of the 1940s.

noun

  1. 1

    The decade of the 1940s.

  2. 2

    A range of the numbers forty (40) to forty-nine (49).

    Women in their 40s were counseled to make individual decisions together with their health care provider, but there was no explicit recommendation for them to start until they turned 50.

Etymology

Abbreviated form of 1940s.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of 40plural of 40 (“bottle of beer”)

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).