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Definition of "1860s" []

  • The decade from 1860 to 1869 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "1860s" in a sentence
  • "So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e."
  • "Kekulé in the 1860s is that carbon can bind at most four other atoms (tetra-coordination)."
  • "GOP Republican Conservatives = Union and Anti-slavery abolitionists in 1860s"