All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Generations"
Parent categories: Age, Collectives, Demography, People, Sociology, Human, Time, Sciences, Statistics, Social sciences, Formal sciences, Mathematics, Society
Subcategories: Baby boomers, Millennials
Total 71 word senses
- Facebook generation (Noun) [English] A demographic group that has matured using social media as their primary networking tool.
- G.I. Generation (Proper name) [English] Synonym of greatest generation
- Gen Alpha (Proper name) [English] Generation Alpha
- Gen X (Proper name) [English] Clipping of Generation X.
- Gen Xer (Noun) [English] Alternative form of Gen-Xer
- Gen Y (Proper name) [English] Clipping of Generation Y.
- Gen Y (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Y.
- Gen Z (Proper name) [English] Clipping of Generation Z.
- Gen-X (Proper name) [English] Alternative form of Gen X.
- Gen-Xer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation X.
- Gen-Zer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Z.
- Generation Alpha (Proper name) [English] The generation following Generation Z, born between the early to mid-2010s and the mid-2020s.
- Generation Jones (Proper name) [English] The generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s; they are the younger subset of the baby boomers but are sometimes conceptualized as being sandwiched between the older subset of baby boomers and Gen-Xers.
- Generation K (Proper name) [English] A demographic cohort identified in 2015, consisting of 13- to 20-year-olds who are relatively anxious, intent on being unique, and concerned about inequality.
- Generation Next (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Generation Y
- Generation Xer (Noun) [English] Synonym of Gen-Xer
- Generation Y (Proper name) [English] The generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), following Generation X.
- Generation Z (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Z.
- Generation Zedder (Noun) [English] Alternative form of Generation Zer.
- Generation Zer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Z.
- MTV generation (Noun) [English] The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
- Millennial (Adjective) [English] Alternative letter-case form of millennial
- Millennial (Noun) [English] Alternative letter-case form of millennial
- Nintendo generation (Noun) [English] The generation that came of age playing Nintendo video games in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
- OK Boomer (Interjection) [English] Alternative form of OK, boomer
- OK boomer (Interjection) [English] Alternative form of OK, boomer
- OK, Boomer (Interjection) [English] Alternative form of OK, boomer
- OK, boomer (Interjection) [English] Used to sardonically counter or dismiss an older person (typically a baby boomer) as lacking understanding of the circumstances, priorities, or culture of a younger generation, especially by a millennial or zoomer.
- Oregon Trail Generation (Proper name) [English] A transitional microgeneration born from the mid-to-late 1970s to the early-to-mid 1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.
- Peter Pan generation (Proper name) [English] Generation Y
- Post-Millennials (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Generation Z
- Silent Generation (Proper name) [English] The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
- World War II generation (Proper name) [English] Synonym of greatest generation
- X Generation (Proper name) [English] Alternative form of Generation X
- X generation (Proper name) [English] Alternative form of Generation X
- Xer (Noun) [English] Ellipsis of Gen-Xer.; a member of Generation X.
- Yer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Y.
- Z (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Z.
- Zer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Z.
- Zillennial (Noun) [English] A person born on the cusp between the Millennials/Generation Y and Generation Z. Sources cite birth years from the early 1990s through the early 2000s for this cohort. They are cultural hybrids of both generations.
- baby boomer (Noun) [English] A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.
- baby boomlet (Noun) [English] A child of a baby boomer, born during the baby boomlet.
- baby buster (Noun) [English] Someone born between the baby boom and the baby boomlet; a Gen-Xer.
- babyboomer (Noun) [English] Alternative spelling of baby boomer
- boomer (Noun) [English] Ellipsis of baby boomer.
- boomer remover (Noun) [English] COVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).
- boomerish (Adjective) [English] Characteristic of a baby boomer.
- boomeritis (Noun) [English] A narcissistic liberal worldview associated with baby boomers.
- echo boomer (Noun) [English] A child of a member of the post-World War II baby boom generation, born in the period extending approximately from the late 1970s or early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
- grandboomer (Noun) [English] A member of the baby boom generation who is a grandparent.
- greatest generation (Proper name) [English] The generation of people who came of age during the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War II, especially those born from the early 1900s to late 1920s.
- iGen (Proper name) [English] Clipping of iGeneration; synonym of Generation Z.
- iGeneration (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Generation Z
- lost generation (Proper name) [English] The generation that came of age during World War I.
- millennial (Adjective) [English] Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E.
- millennial (Adjective) [English] Synonym of millenarian (“pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth”)
- millennial (Noun) [English] Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.
- millennial pink (Noun) [English] A light rosy pink colour.
- millennial pink (Adjective) [English] Of a light rosy pink colour.
- milliberal (Noun) [English] A liberal millennial.
- postboomer (Adjective) [English] After the baby boomers.
- postboomer (Noun) [English] One born after the baby boomers.
- postmillennial (Adjective) [English] Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
- postmillennial (Adjective) [English] Pertaining to the period following the year 1000 or (now more usually) following the year 2000.
- postmillennial (Noun) [English] A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.
- thirteener (Noun) [English] A member of the 13th Gen; a Gen-Xer.
- xennial (Noun) [English] A person born late in Generation X or early in Generation Y, that is, sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s; a member of the Oregon Trail Generation.
- zoomer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Z.
- 13er (Noun) [English] Alternative form of thirteener (“mountain with an elevation of at least 13,000 feet”).
- 13er (Noun) [English] Alternative form of thirteener (“Gen-Xer”).
- 13th Gen (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Generation X
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