1940s

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1940s

noun 1940's

plural, plural only The decade from 1940 to 1949. His knowledge of both Hong Kong and the Mainland made a deep impression on me during the hour we spent over lunch. Huang had learned Cantonese from his wife, who studied Chinese medicine in Guangzhou during the 1940s, and now owned a Chinese herbal medicine shop in the Yau Ma Ti district.
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@misc{1940s_2026,
  title = {1940s},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/1940s},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}