Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
1880s is a noun meaning "the decade from 1880 to 1889". It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for 1880s come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.