Definition of "1820s" []

• The decade from 1820 to 1829 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I wanted to know more about George and his family in 1820s New York state."
• "Edward Hartery was also a new arrival from Ireland in 1820s; he married Elizabeth Kelly, first-generation Irish Newfoundland daughter of Catherine and Cornelius Kelly (agent at Cape Broyle for the Koughs), and they established themselves on land near the Kelly home. 34"
• "In fact, the property qualification was so obvious at the time, and opposition to it so abnormal, that US History texts often fail to point out that “Jacksonian Democracy” in the 1820s was the result of the abandonment, state by state, sometimes with violence, of the property qualification."