Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dollar decade

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English

Syllables: dol-lar decade
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.

Uncountable

noun

Alternative letter-case form of dollar decade.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties"
"Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast."

Etymology

Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

the dollar decade (canonical)

Phrases

Roaring Twenties Great Depression

Frequently Paired Words

Roaring Twenties Great Depression

Questions

What does dollar decade mean?: The 1920s in the United States, marked by rapid economic expansion.
Where does dollar decade come from?: Popularized by political scientist James Warren Prothro in his book The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920's (1954).

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