Decade
Decade noun - A period of 10 years.
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Forties and decade are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Forties" with "Decade", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: decadal
Forties
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- Dick Tracy debuted in 1931, but many of his most popular characters didn't debut until The Forties, an entire decade's worth of Iconic Sequel Characters.
Source: Iconic Sequel Character -
Older Than They Look: Not as much as some in Hollywood but it's still hard to believe the man is his forties, especially since almost all of his roles involve characters that are almost a decade (or more) younger than his actual age.
Source: Creator / Jeremy Renner -
Gould would continue this practice for the rest of his time working on Tracy, even as his villains became more interesting.The Forties was if not the strip's most popular decade, definitely its most famous, with stories from that decade often the most reprinted.
Source: Comic Strip / Dick Tracy
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