1980s

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Noun
  1. 1
    The decade beginning in 1980 and ending in 1989. plural, plural-only

    "On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s."

  2. 2
    plural of 1980 form-of, plural
  3. 3
    the decade from 1980 to 1989 wordnet

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eighties'80s80s80seighties

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"On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s."

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