Definition of "1780s" []

• The decade from 1780 to 1789 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Feminist sensibilities, which had emerged in 1780s and 1790s France,11 did not solicit a response amongst Greek women, and this silence continued until the ideals of the Enlightenment had been well established amongst the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire and the Diaspora."
• "Now with a population of about 90,000, it dates to the Spanish colonial era of California and a Roman Catholic mission established in the 1780s is a major tourist attraction."
• "Now with a population of about 90,000, it dates to the Spanish colonial era of California and a Roman Catholic mission established in the 1780s is a major tourist draw."