Definition of "1790s" []

• The decade from 1790 to 1799 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Germany in the late 1790s is rather like Jung and Freud bringing the plague of psychoanalysis into New York"
• "The visually dramatic effects in 1790s Gothic fiction were appropriated by the critical responses that it provoked."
• "The critical consensus in 1790s Britain came to equate spectral appearances with "popular and vulgar taste.""