Definition of Decades

1. Noun. (plural of decade) ¹

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Definition of Decades

1. decade [n] - See also: decade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decades

decacyclic
decad
decadal
decadally
decade
decade-long
decade long
decadelong
decadence
decadences
decadencies
decadency
decadent
decadently
decadents
decades (current term)
decadeslong
decadic
decadic dialling
decadienal
decadiene
decadienes
decadist
decadists
decadrachm
decadrachms
decadron
decads
decaf
decaff

Literary usage of Decades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"In, a total of 309 international operations were recorded; this figure more than doubled in two decades, reaching 661 incidents in. ..."

2. Publication by Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee (1916)
"CHAPTER II DEVELOPMENTS IN SEVEN decades By 1850 Cleveland had developed a well organized school system. Buildings were erected for long years of service. ..."

3. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... the conservatism of the academic drama rendered a foregone conclusion. in the first two decades of The variety of Within the first twenty years of ..."

4. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... of the academic drama rendered a foregone conclusion. two decades of n , ... of drama known to the later in the first decades had been clearly presaged. ..."

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