millennial

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin mīllennium (“millennium”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns). The English word may be analysed as millennium + -al or milli- (prefix meaning ‘thousand’) + -ennial (suffix meaning ‘years’).
Sense 5 (“of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century”) was coined by the American authors William Strauss (1947–2007) and Neil Howe (born 1951) in their book Generations (1991): see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

coinage

Michael Dimock (2019 January 17) “Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins”, in Pew Research Center, archived from the original on 2020-06-01.

semiannual · annual · biennial · triennial · quadrennial · quinquennial

quintennial · sextennial · septennial · octennial · novennial · decennary

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the millennial generation

He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?

Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Past as Prologue”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 352:

When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single "Boyfriend" was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber's Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-04-05:

Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial. They see it as derogatory.

2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-29:

But, while many have jumped to label the astrology boom as another millennial trend, that may not actually be the case.

2018 March 22, Wilder Davies, “Mercury Is Entering Retrograde Again. This Is Why So Many People Care”, in Time:

We make hits / Two broke millennial men / And we'd do it again

2024, “We Make Hits”, in James Smith (lyrics), Where's My Utopia?, performed by Yard Act:

(by extension, originally US, demography) 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.

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the millennial judgment

VVhereas the very Povver of the Civil Magisſtrate and his ſecurity is hazarded by vvild and hot-ſpirited men, that vvould raiſe a Fifth Monarchie by Bloud and Rapine, and tumble dovvn all Government, […] and that they are the Pioners to level all plain, and break all Government in pieces, that Chriſt, the Fifth Monarch, may perſonally come and begin his Millennial Empire upon Earth; […]

1660, H[enry] More, chapter XVII, in An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 204:

This is that illuſtrious Reign of Chriſt in his Millennial Empire of Love, vvhen the Chriſtian life ſhall take place, and Opinions and Perſecutions ſhall be done avvay.

1669, Henry More, “[https://books.google.com/books?id=6ipkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP70 The Preface to the Reader, […]]”, in An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches; […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC:

But their reciprocal, unſelfiſh Aid, / Affords an Emblem of Millennial Love.

1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 320:

Every tenant was quite sure things would be different when the reins got into his hands—there was to be a millennial abundance of new gates, allowances of lime, and returns of ten per cent.

1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Dairy”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 156:

millenarian

(Christianity) 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

Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Millennial Cycle”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 342:

Meet the Millennials, born in or after 1982—the "Babies on Board" of the early [Ronald] Reagan years, the "Have You Hugged Your Child Today?" sixth graders of the early [Bill] Clinton years, the teens of Columbine, and, this year, the much-touted high school Class of 2000, now invading the nation's campuses.

2000 September, Neil Howe, William Strauss, “The Next Great Generation”, in Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 4:

When we saw Millennials as kids being raised so differently, we could already make an easy prediction. We had seen this dark to bright contrast in child upbringing before many times in American history, so we already foresaw that by the time you got to 2000 you would see huge changes in people in their late teens and early 20s.

2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, quoting Neil Howe, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-29:

In a bumper for a newsmagazine program, a reporter muses: “[It’s] the year of the yuppie, but what is a yuppie?” That’s right, fellow millennials: Not long ago, young people had so much economic opportunity that their generation was defined by its upward mobility.

2020 June 25, Eve Peyser, “In vintage TV ads, a curious fountain of hope (and cheese)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20:

(originally US, demography) 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.


boomer

(UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).


baby boomer

The baby boomers, Americans born between 1946 and 1961, are increasingly discovering that the cohorts with whom they crowded into maternity wards, elementary schools, colleges and entry-level jobs are now clogging the fast track to the top as well, demographers say.

1982 January 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Baby Boom Comes of Age”, in New York Times:

(sometimes capitalized) 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.

第二次世界大戰後生育高峰期出生的人 /第二次世界大战后生育高峰期出生的人

dì èr cì shìjiè dàzhàn hòu shēngyù gāofēngqī chūshēng de rén

čelovék, rodívšijsja v períod demografíčeskovo vzrýva

челове́к, роди́вшийся в пери́од демографи́ческого взры́ва


Z

Alternative form: Zed

Take that a step further for Millennials and Zs by crafting an e-mail subject header that does the same but with even fewer characters; […]

2017, Martha M. Ellis, Linda Garcia, Generation X Presidents Leading Community Colleges: New Challenges, New Leaders, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 10:

The current progressive movement—and certainly the Millennials and Zs—understand that the Hyde Amendment is discriminatory […]

2020, Zerlina Maxwell, The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Books, →ISBN:

The current global pandemic is almost certainly a formative moment for younger Millennials and Zs as they navigate through similar challenges.

2022, Morgen Witzel, editor, Post-Pandemic Leadership: Exploring Solutions to a Crisis, Routledge, →ISBN:


Generation Y

Using Y as the letter that follows X, as in Generation X.

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The generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), following Generation X.

generació Y

generation of people born in the 1980s and 1990s


MTV generation

But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.

1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346:

Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images […]

1996, James Robert Walker, Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96:

The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.

1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311:

Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.

2003, Patricia B. Seybold, Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8:

The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.


Xer

Many Xers sport piercings in their noses or navels.

We Xers have a love-hate relationship with our entertainment media.

1995, Kevin Graham Ford, Jim Denney, Jesus for a New Generation: Putting the Gospel in the Language of Xers:

Ellipsis of Gen-Xer.; a member of Generation X.


postmillennial

en-adj

postmillennial (comparative more postmillennial, superlative most postmillennial)

more postmillennial (comparative)
most postmillennial (superlative)

“I want to get into the heads of people younger than me, to be postmillennial,” she says. “I look at different Instagram influencers, at the music and the music scene, to try to understand it all.”

2020 February 7, Melanie Gerlis, quoting Avery Singer, “Avery Singer: the artist breathing fresh life into painting”, in Financial Times:

Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.


zoomer

→ Russian: зу́мер (zúmer)

Portmanteau from Generation Z and boomer (“baby boomer, a person born between 1945 and early 1960s”). Merriam-Webster identified the earliest use in its current sense as being made on 16 March 2016 by an aviation engineer named Jennie Santoro at HNTB Seattle, in a presentation called "Boomers to Zoomers: Passing the Torch to Generation Z!"
However, the word was ultimately popularized through a variant of the Wojak meme which originated on 4chan on July 21st, 2018, and from there spread to other platforms. Accordingly, Urban Dictionary view statistics suggest that it began gaining traction in mid-2018 before peaking in January 2020.

Coordinate term: millennial

Hug a Boomer/Xer/Millennial/Zoomer In case you missed it: Gen Z is mad at boomers for the state of the world; boomers are mad at Gen Z for being so dismissive; Gen X feels forgotten and yet resents even themselves; […]

2019 December 27, Anya Strzemien, “13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020”, in New York Times:


Generation Z

Using Z as the letter that follows Y, as in Generation Y.

And to our wonderful tribe of Generation Zs and Alphas for whom we are so grateful: Acacia, Jasper, Zari, Brighton and Corban – it is an honour to call you our children.

2021, Mark McCrindle, Generation Alpha: Understanding Our Children and Helping Them Thrive, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

One key reason Generation Zs have suffered the highest job losses is that they are disproportionately represented in industries that have had the most number of layoffs and furloughs and are more likely to be in entry-level jobs and/or serve as hourly workers.

2021, Annabel Beerel, Rethinking Leadership: A Critique of Contemporary Theories, Routledge, →ISBN:

In comparison, Generation Zs are the first generation to grow up with the Internet in their pocket (e.g. cell phones and smartphones) with constant access to the online world, creating a sense of immediacy for information and contact.

2022, Heidi Weigand, Heather Mackinnon, Erica Weigand, Jessica Hepworth, “Intergenerational Stories of Kindness: A Catalyst for Bouncing Back”, in Michelle Thomason, editor, Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies (Kindness at Work), Emerald Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:


echo boomer

By 2010, there will be 70 million potential drivers among the echo boomers born from 1977 to 1994.

2002 March 31, Michelle Krebs, “Youth Will Be Served at This Year's New York Auto Show”, in New York Times, retrieved 2010-08-30:

(demographics) 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.


postboomer

postboomer (comparative more postboomer, superlative most postboomer)

more postboomer (comparative)
most postboomer (superlative)

“Boomer” has gotten such a bum rap that even our new president, who is a clear-cut boomer demographically (the boom years ran through 1964), has sought to link himself to a younger generation with a postboomer mentality, one that types with its thumbs to communicate and is not tainted by the cultural wars of the 1960s.

2009 January 25, Michael Winerip, “They Warned You About Us”, in New York Times:


Gen-Xer

From Gen X, shortened from Generation X + -er.


boomeritis

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From boomer + -itis, coined by Ken Wilber in Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free (2002).

Techies were the most juvenile, but other wealthy men, in the full throes of boomeritis, also acted like kids in a candy store.

2009, Larry Samuel, Rich: the rise and fall of American wealth culture, page 222:

(informal) A narcissistic liberal worldview associated with baby boomers.


grandboomer

This granddaughter was clearly tapping into the energy and fun that many grandboomers bring to their new role.

2005, Peggy Edwards, Mary Jane Sterne, Intentional Grandparenting: A Boomer's Guide, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., →ISBN, page 4:

A member of the baby boom generation who is a grandparent.


Silent Generation

Popularized in a Time article in 1951. So called because they were not often politically strident.

The Silent Generation produced such counterculture leaders as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Huey Newton and Abbie Hoffman.

Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s.

2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:

Like his character, Stiller was Gen X, but he didn’t have Boomer parents; his mother and father were part of the Silent Generation, and more important, they were in showbiz.

2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic:

The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.


Generation Jones

Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (“intense craving”).

Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young.

The later cohort of Generation Jones really seems to combine some Baby Boom qualities with those of later generational cohorts.

2011, Tracy D. Connors, The Volunteer Management Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

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.


lost generation

Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.

The generation that came of age during World War I.


thirteener

From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).

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oner · twoer · fiver · sixer · Sevener · niner · tenner · elevener · twelver · fourteener · fifteener · sixteener · hundreder · thousander · twenty-five-thousander

Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Past as Prologue”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 352:

Raise the tough issues and questions that Thirteeners struggle with in the real world. […] The speaker should be transparent about his or her own life struggles and problems. This creates credibility and helps Thirteeners identify their own problems.

1995, Kevin Graham Ford, with Jim Denney, “How to Reach Us, Part 2: Process Evangelism”, in Jesus for a New Generation: Putting the Gospel in the Language of Xers, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 205:

(dated) A member of the 13th Gen; a Generation Xer or Gen-Xer.

Upon their return from Ireland, vvhere they collected ſome thirteeners for vvhich they had not given the intrinſic value, ſhillings, they made their appearance at Tenby, in Pembrokeſhire, on a pretended tour of pleaſure.

1782, Genuine Memoirs of the Lives of George and Joseph Weston, who were Executed September 3d. 1782. The First for Forgery; the Latter for Shooting at John Davis, and Wounding Him in Cock-Lane: […], 4th edition, London: […] John Walker, […], →OCLC, pages 9–10:

["]A gintleman once said to me: 'Here, Pat, yer sowl, you look hungry. Here's a thirteener for yez; go and get drunk wid it.' Och, no, your honour, he wasn't an Irish gentleman; it was afther mocking me he was, God save him." […] On my asking the boy if he felt hurt at the mockery, he answered, slily, with all his air of simplicity, "Sure, thin, wasn't there the shillin'! For it was a shillin' he gave me, glory be to God. No, I niver heard it called a thirteener before, but mother has.["]

1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Street-seller of Crackers and Detonating Balls”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume I (The London Street-folk. Book the First.), London: [George Woodfall], →OCLC, page 434, column 1:

[T]he woman banged a shilling down upon the table, crying, "Arrah, my honey, with this thirteener, won't I sit in the gallery, and won't your Royal Grace give me a curtsey—and won't I give your Royal Highness a howl and a hiss into the bargain!"

1877 October, [Henry Barton Baker], “Our Old Actors. Mrs. [Dorothea] Jordan.”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume LI, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers; Paris: Galignani, →OCLC, page 182:

(numismatics, dated) A coin worth thirteenpence, especially an Irish shilling (as contrasted with a British shilling which was worth twelvepence).

There are six summits in Colorado above thirteen thousand feet named "Grizzly." Four of them are in the highest two hundred summits. This one was once rated a Fourteener, but new surveys demoted it so that it is now the highest Thirteener.

1992, Mike Garratt, Bob Martin, “Grizzly Peak (13,988 feet), Garfield Peak (13,780 feet)”, in Colorado’s High Thirteeners (A Climbing & Hiking Guide), 3rd edition, Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books, →ISBN, page 38:

Few who venture into this region know that the area is a superb place to go after thirteener ski descents.

2020, Ben Conners, Brian Miller, “Cronin Peak—Northeast Face”, in Climbing and Skiing Colorado’s Mountains: Over 50 Select Ski Descents, 2nd edition, Lanham, Md.: Falcon Guides, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 169:

(US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet (about 4,000 metres) but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.

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mountain rising to more than 13,000 feet but less than 14,000 feet above mean sea level


Peter Pan generation

Coined by American sociologist Kathleen Shaputis, because of the members' perceived tendency for delaying some rites of passage into adulthood.


boomerish

en-adj

boomerish (comparative more boomerish, superlative most boomerish)

more boomerish (comparative)
most boomerish (superlative)

He identifies a lot with the Buster attitude, but when it comes to management style, he tends to be very performance-oriented, very Boomerish. He fixes his eyes on the goal, and sometimes he's hurt his relationships with people in that process.

1996, Tim Celek, Dieter Zander, Patrick Kampert, Inside the Soul of a New Generation, page 143:

Where “1999” proposed an apathetic solution to the problem of the oncoming apocalypse—dance!—in “America” Prince sees dystopia and offers nothing but what he sees: No solutions, no boomerish optimism, he's just a camera.

2013, Touré, I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, page 66:

A Howard Beale for the Instagram era, he’s here lashing out on behalf of boomerish power lunchers who believe in a woman’s right to a safe abortion and oppose police brutality but are too scared to admit how enraged they are by a generation of absolutist woke whiners.

2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:


xennial

I was born in 1980. According to some sources, this makes me a Gen Xer. According to others, I’m a Millennial. That makes me what then, a Xennial? I take online quizzes, like Pew Research Center’s “How Millennial Are You?”, and land dead between Gen X and Millennial due to my personal habits, body piercings, and so many more reasons.

2014 September 25, Sarah Stankorb, “Glad to be a Xennial”, in GOOD:

Xennial is a term that I first used in a 2014 story for GOOD magazine, following on the heels of writers like Doree Shafrir, who in 2011 called this cusp generation’s pop-cultural misfit status Generation Catalano, after crowdsourcing the My So-Called Life–inspired term from Danielle Nussbaum on Twitter.

2017 July 6, Sarah Stankorb, “I Made Up Xennial 3 Years Ago, So Why Is a Professor in Australia Getting All the Credit?”, in Vogue:

But there's this new group, you may know them — that microgeneration sandwiched between — who feel like they don't really belong to either group […] Love it or hate it, there's a newish name for these lost souls: the "xennials" (pronounced ZEE-knee-als).

2017 November 10, Dwight Adams, “You're a xennial — if you're caught between Generation X and millennials”, in Indianapolis Star:

I’m a reluctant millennial myself (or possibly — God forbid — an xennial), stuck in the pretty common category of not identifying with my so-called generation.

2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post:

Oregon Trail Generation
Oregon Trail Generation

(informal) 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.


Generation Alpha

Originated from a 2008 survey conducted by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research, according to founder Mark McCrindle, who is generally credited with the term. McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in a 2015 interview:
When I was researching my book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations (published in 2009) it became apparent that a new generation was about to commence and there was no name for them. So I conducted a survey (we're researchers after all) to find out what people think the generation after Z should be called and while many names emerged, and Generation A was the most mentioned, Generation Alpha got some mentions too and so I settled on that for the title of the chapter Beyond Z: Meet Generation Alpha. It just made sense as it is in keeping with scientific nomenclature of using the Greek alphabet in lieu of the Latin and it didn't make sense to go back to A, after all they are the first generation wholly born in the 21st Century and so they are the start of something new not a return to the old.
McCrindle Research also took inspiration from the naming of hurricanes, specifically the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season in which the names beginning with the letters of the Latin alphabet were exhausted, and the last six storms were named with the Greek letters alpha through zeta.

Generation Alpha members will be the most diverse of all the generations. In 2011, Generation Alpha reached a demographic milestone: there were more Generation Alpha babies born to minority families than white families in the United States […]

2016, Jeanne Meister, Kevin J. Mulcahy, The Future Workplace Experience, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 160:

(demographics) The generation following Generation Z, born between the early to mid-2010s and the mid-2020s.


millennial pink

en-noun

millennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

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Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.

2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:

[…] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.

2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:

Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous.

2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:

millennial pink:


millennial pink

But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]

2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:


Gen Xer

Gen Xers have been described by author Douglas Coupland as the first generation raised without religion.

Jason, a thirty-two-year-old computer programmer, and a typical Gen Xer, summed it up beautifully when he talked with me.

2007, Larry D. Rosen, Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the Net Generation, page 28:

Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.

2010, Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, page 121:

Gen Xer's are children of two working parents. And they are children of divorce: more than half of Gen Xer's parents divorced while they were growing up and living at home.

2011, Kelly McDonald, How to Market to People Not Like You:


baby buster

From baby bust + -er, following baby boomer.

Since today’s young adults were born during a period when the U.S. birthrate decreased to half the level of its postwar peak, in the wake of the great baby boom, they are sometimes called the baby busters. By whatever name, so far they are an unsung generation, hardly recognized as a social force or even noticed much at all.

1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:

As was made clear in Section III. A, a baby buster spends more time with his parents, since the burden of taking care of one's parents is shared by fewer siblings.

2001, Erik Lueth, Can inheritances Alleviate the Fiscal Burden of An Aging Population:

The solution of some is to design what are in effect baby buster churches, or at least baby buster church services.

2009, D. A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism, page 45:

In the medium term, 2015-2030, the average baby boomer is of age 60-75 – his parents are no longer living in this period — and the average baby buster is of age 30–45.

The force of media means that popular culture creates the sensibility, rather than offering a 'statement' of the 'authentic baby buster mentalitae ' (2005:19).

Someone born between the baby boom and the baby boomlet; a Gen-Xer.


baby boomlet

The baby boomlet was a period marked by increases in the number of women of childbearing age and increases in fertility rates of those women.

2002, Laura E. Hill, Hans P. Johnson, Understanding the Future of Californians' Fertility, page 87:

Cashing in on the baby boomers' baby boomlet of the '80s and '90s, the children's apparel market saw a significant increase and was among the fastest-growing segments of the overall retail market.

2011, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Clothing Store and More:

We can estimate three separate US generations based on census data as follows: baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964), Generations X'ers (born between 1965 and 1976), and the baby boomlet (born between 1977 and 1994) (Edmondson, 1995).

2013, M. Babula, Motivation, Altruism, Personality and Social Psychology:

(singular only) An increase in birth rate that occurred when the baby boomers reached childbearing age.

Over a long-term period, population growth would be affected by changing birth rates due to shifts in social values and movement of age cohorts such as baby-boomers and baby-boomlets through the child-bearing years.

2000, Washington State Labor Area Summaries - Volume 15, page 12:

Baby boomlets (consumers born between 1977 and 1997 and also known as "Gen Y") have emerged as the next cohort since the baby boomers to receive the close attention of retailers (Bounds, 2000).

2002, Journal of Retailing - Volume 78, page 78:

My fellow baby boomlets also engaged in strong civic engagement.

Baby boomers, baby busters, and baby boomlets view God in action differently than the generations of slavery, convict leasing, the civil rights movement, and the War on Drugs.

2014, Rev. Roger W. Baker, Who Authorized You to Quit?::

A child of a baby boomer, born during the baby boomlet.

Following the Second World War there were "baby boomlets" in Europe, but these lasted for only a year or two, unlike the prolonged birth rise in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States.

1992, Gary R. Collins, Baby Boomer Blues, page 6:

"There've been two baby boomlets, one now going into middle school or junior high, and a new one that has just come, ages one, two, or three," says Donovan.

2000, Catherine Frey Murphy, Vicki Hambleton, Joan Broerman, Children's Writer Guide To 2000, page 20:

Popular wisdom has it that baby boomlets spring from tragedy — earthquakes, hurricanes, and the like.

2002, Adam Lashinsky, Fortune - Volume 145, page 174:

Any spike in birth rate that is smaller than the baby boom.


OK, boomer

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People who went to college decades ago might talk about how they were able to pay to go to college by working part-time or working a summer job, even though college was substantially more affordable then.
To that, we would say, “OK boomer, we're just asking for the same opportunities you got, and that students around the world get.”

2019 November 21, “Editorial: With high college costs, state should give more funding”, in The State News, Michigan State University, page 2:

On one level, I understood Parker. She came up in an era when putting up with male misbehavior was just part of the job of being a journalist. Sometimes you could make lemonade out of lemons; maybe she genuinely enjoyed “flirting” with Matthews. But to insinuate that what other women experienced with the host was equally enjoyable, well, OK Boomer. (And I say that as a boomer.)

2020 March 3, Joan Walsh, “Chris Matthews Is Gone. His Bosses Are Not”, in The Nation:

(Internet slang, derogatory) Used to sardonically counter or dismiss an older person (typically a baby boomer) as lacking an understanding of the circumstances, priorities, or culture of a younger generation, especially by a millennial or zoomer.


boomer remover

From being an agent that removes baby boomers from the living population, i.e. kills them, as older people are more susceptible to the virus. (See quotations below.)

We’re being instructed to return COVID possible patients back to their “3 per room” SNF prior to receiving test results. […] Fuck, they're taking #boomerremover seriously

2020 March 16, SliverMcSilverson, “Anyone else seeing this”, in Reddit:

On February 29 this year, Twitter user @nurselietv posted the tweet “I heard someone call the coronavirus the ‘boomer remover’.”

2020 March 17, Anne Acuña, “Internet riled up over cruel new Gen-Z, Millennial clapback calling COVID-19 as ‘Boomer Remover’”, in InqPop!:

Ageism has been blamed for islands of death in nursing homes (Mueller, 2020), and for a spike in intergenerational animosity, as captured in internet epithets such as “grandma/grandpa killer,” “boomer remover,” and “boomer doomer” (pre-Covid-19; “coffin dodger”).

2021, Bronwen Lichtenstein, “From “Coffin Dodger” to “Boomer Remover”: Outbreaks of Ageism in Three Countries With Divergent Approaches to Coronavirus Control”, in The Journals of Gerontology, series b, →DOI:

This was supposed to be the #BoomerRemover .... they truly are the worst generation.

2021 March 30, Surgical Sister, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-03-30:

(slang, humorous, derogatory) COVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).


X generation

Instant gratification is the curse of the X generation.

2013, Percival Everett, James Kincaid, A History of the African-American People:

The Pontiac Aztec is a now-classic example of a product that attempted to capture the X generation with a car customized to their every need.

2013, Tony Davila, Marc Epstein, Robert Shelton, How to Become Innovative:

I have included information, such as the adoption of electronic means of communication and the need to evangelize the members of the X generation, which I certainly had not foreseen when I last wrote.

2014, Robert W. Prichard, A History of the Episcopal Church, page xv:


X Generation

Our Frankie's part of the ... the X Generation ... is what they call it.

2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 110:

Conna has Silent Generation parents and is an X Gener, married to a Baby Boomer. She has X Generation siblings, four Y Generation nieces and nephews and a Z Generation daughter.

2010, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Donna Pendergast, Tourism and Generation Y, page ix:

Duffy argues the need to change course designs to incorporate Web 2.0 technologies because the habits, customs and codes of Millennium and X Generation students differ from those of previous generations.

2012, Melanie Ciussi, Erik Gebers Freitas, Leading Issues in E-learning Research For Researchers, page 47:


Gen X

If the MTV innovation is one hallmark of Gen X, another important attribute is this generation's sense of humor, which is self-conscious, self-deprecating, and filled with irony, but also tends to be somewhat subversive and antiestablishment.

1999, Rob Owen, Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 54:


Gen Z

But on streaming platforms like TikTok — where many Gen Z stars can simply upload content of themselves in sweatpants and a sport bra dancing to the latest trending audio from the confines of their own bathrooms and generate hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of likes — creators say they’ve been experiencing tremendous growth.

2020 March 24, EJ Dickson, “Amid Coronavirus Fears, TikTok Collab Houses Still Going Strong”, in Rolling Stone:

Though Gen Z isn’t the first group to employ loud and unapologetic tactics — some older activists and writers, including Katha Pollitt, have been pushing these ideas for years — they may be doing it in larger numbers.

2020 December 10, Jessica Grose, “The New Abortion Rights Advocates Are on TikTok”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


Gen Alpha

(demographics, informal) Generation Alpha


G.I. Generation

greatest generation
greatest generation#English


greatest generation

Popularized by the 1998 book The Greatest Generation.

Other members of the greatest generation found their life's calling in uniform, continuing to serve in the military after the war and helping it to adapt to the changing times.

1998, Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation, Random House, →ISBN, page 386:

My dad did the things that a boy remembers. […] He also taught me that we are here for something bigger than ourselves; he lived out the responsibilities and the sacrifices of the greatest generation to whom we owe so much.

2004 July 29, John Kerry, 2004 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address:

What we have instead is the Greatest Generation, an idea that delineates one of the most important developments in the national mythos over the last several decades.

2013, Kenneth Rose, Myth and the Greatest Generation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:

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.


Gen-Zer

/d͡ʒɛn ˈzɛdə/

/d͡ʒɛn ˈziːɚ/

From Gen Z, shortened from Generation Z + -er.

Coordinate term: Gen-Xer

The track makes the 18-year-old Eilish the youngest artist ever to record a Bond theme, the latest in a string of achievements that has made the precocious Gen-Z-er a regular fixture on the Guinness World Records blog.

2020 February 19, Lindsay Zoladz, “A Bond Theme Suits Billie Eilish Quite Well”, in The New York Times:

Another super PAC that supports moderate Republicans, Defending Main Street, has spent over $1.2 million and is running an ad that describes Ms. Leavitt as a “woke Gen-Z’er” and plays a Snapchat video she once posted where she used crude language to refer to her viewers.

2022 September 12, Annie Karni, “Gun Shoot Will Conclude Former Trump Aide’s House Primary Race”, in The New York Times:


Facebook generation

Facebook generation (plural Facebook generations)

(sociology) A demographic group that has matured using social media as their primary networking tool.


Millennial

Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Past as Prologue”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 352:

Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial. They see it as derogatory.

2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-29:

Alternative letter-case form of millennial


Millennial

Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Millennial Cycle”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 342:

Meet the Millennials, born in or after 1982—the "Babies on Board" of the early [Ronald] Reagan years, the "Have You Hugged Your Child Today?" sixth graders of the early [Bill] Clinton years, the teens of Columbine, and, this year, the much-touted high school Class of 2000, now invading the nation's campuses.

2000 September, Neil Howe, William Strauss, “The Next Great Generation”, in Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 4:

When we saw Millennials as kids being raised so differently, we could already make an easy prediction. We had seen this dark to bright contrast in child upbringing before many times in American history, so we already foresaw that by the time you got to 2000 you would see huge changes in people in their late teens and early 20s.

2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, quoting Neil Howe, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-29:


Zillennial

Coordinate term: xennial

These and other differences raise larger questions: How did Zillennials come to be this way? At what point did their tactics diverge?

2019, Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump:

Such widespread inequality calls for an urgent requirement for leaders to change, especially because the new workforce – Millennials and Zillennials – are demanding such change, in their droves.

2019, Leila McKenzie Delis, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, page 23:

2023 June 6, Nadira Goffe, “A Zillennial Comedian Is Creating Taylor Swift–Style Chaos on Ticketmaster. Who Is Matt Rife?”, in Slate, retrieved 2023-06-06:

A person born on the cusp of, or during the latter years of Generation Y/Millennials and early years of Generation Z. They are cultural hybrids of both generations.


13th Gen

Coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe, from being the 13th generation since American independence according to their analysis of generational cycles in the US (Strauss-Howe generational theory).


Generation Zer

The other day, Jann Wenner was talking about his generation. To him, the common notion that millennials and generation Zers have beefs with baby boomers like him – from their assumptions about the primacy of their music to their culpability in climate change – doesn’t fly.

2022 September 16, Jim Farber, “Jann Wenner on Rolling Stone: ‘Some reviews were just insufferably nasty’”, in The Guardian:


The bare and grassy Elk Mountain 12er stands to the north, contrasted by ragged 13ers to the east rising above Mayflower Gulch, an impressive lineup including Crystal, Atlantic and Pacific Peaks, Fletcher Mountain and Drift Peak.

2022 August 2, Joe LaFleur, “CT Series: Kokomo Pass area delivers on alpine expanses with bonus fall colors”, in Pikes Peak Courier:

Alternative form of thirteener (“mountain with an elevation of at least 13,000 feet”).

thirteener

Yet the worst aspect of this “bust” nomer, and why 13ers resent it, is how it plants today's 25-year-olds squarely where they don't want to be: in the shadow of the “boom[.]”

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 324:

Alternative form of thirteener (“Gen-Xer”).


Gen Y

If you are a member of Gen Y, you probably feel right at home working with computers and digital media.

2008, Dianne Bender, Design Portfolios: Moving from Traditional to Digital, Fairchild Books, →ISBN, page 40:

Since "entitlement" has been a word consistently used to describe the attitude Millennials bring with them, this chapter explains why this perception of Gen Y is rampant and what being entitled means to them.

2013, Diane E. Spiegel, The Gen Y Handbook: Applying Relationship Leadership to Engage Millennials, SelectBooks, →ISBN:

According to [Mark] McCrindle, “Gen Alpha will likely stay in education longer, start their earning years later and so stay at home with their parents later than even their predecessors, Gen Z and Gen Y.[…]”

2022, Tim Elmore, A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Maxwell Leadership, →ISBN, pages 271–272:


Gen Y

Gen Ys grew up in a media-saturated postmodern world where technology was pervasive.

2013, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, “Generational cohorts and ecotourism”, in Roy Ballantyne, Jan Packer, editors, International Handbook on Ecotourism, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:

Growing up, Gen Ys were bombarded with messages, more than any other generation. Due to the 24/7 nature of news and information and with their tech savvy skills and links into social media, they are connected and move forward with high expectations.

Due to the low unemployment rate in Australia and New Zealand and the high demand for skilled workers, many organisations are going out of their way to employ Gen Ys.

2015, Stephen P. Robbins, Rolf Bergman, Ian Stagg, Mary Coulter, Management, Pearson Australia, →ISBN, page 558:


Nintendo generation

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Nintendo generation.

The generation that came of age playing Nintendo video games in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.


Generation K

Coined by British economist and author Noreena Hertz in 2015. The K stands for Katniss Everdeen, a character in the young-adult novel The Hunger Games (2008).

coin

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Generation K.

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.


iGen

From i- + Gen(eration), from having grown up with the internet and in particular smartphones. Popularized by American psychologist Jean Twenge in her book iGen (2017).

You should have heard some of the alternatives. According to MTV, other potential names included the Plurals, the Navigators, the Regenerators, iGen, ReGen and the Homeland Generation.

2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(uncommon) Clipping of iGeneration; synonym of Generation Z.


Oregon Trail Generation

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Coined with reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.

Now our teacher candidates are almost 100% members of the Oregon Trail Generation. They answer email on their iPhones and play computer games on their cell phones when they are bored.

2009, Rhonda Christensen, “Forward”, in Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, page xix:

"I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation."
"What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation."

2018, Kathleen Brooks, Saving Shadows, unnumbered page:

Unlike the millennial generation that followed us— the “digital natives” who can never remember a time before computers—the Oregon Trail Generation grew up on the cusp of changes that transformed modern life.

2021, Melanie C. Ross, Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic, page 18:

(US) 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.


Zer

Boomers and Xers were told to stay silent, but millennials and Zers were encouraged to speak up. The millennials and some of these Zers who have grown up and joined our teaching force were raised in a model that put them at the center of the family circle, which helps explain why millennial and Gen Z teachers would want more interaction with authority figures.

2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN:

Learning from the past is not the same as living in the past. Learning from the past is the only way one can truly live either progressively or conservatively in the present, whatever one’s preference might be. But don’t expect Millennials and Zers to believe such a tale.

2022 June 22, Robert Shinkoskey, “Ancient technology for today”, in Wabash Plain Dealer, page A7:

The percentage of people who are interested in extreme sports is rising, and most of these people belong to the age groups of Millennials and Zers, who already seek out glamping.

2023, Alastair M. Morrison, Dimitrios Buhalis, editors, Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Global Tourism Supply and Demand, Routledge, →ISBN:


Generation Zedder

en-noun

Generation Zedder (plural Generation Zedders)

On a high wall in the corner of Social Chain’s Manchester office, with a look of serene exasperation, Jesus Christ looks down on the sea of millennials and Generation Zedders (or whatever the dominant term is for the under-20s this month) tapping out tweets and social media stories.

2018 January 14, Simon Parkin, “Inside Britain’s meme factory”, in The Observer, page 17:

So we’re still not online as moving day approaches and it’s looking like our new digs won’t be digital right away. I break it to Youngest Child, a Generation Zedder raised by the interweb, that we may be temporarily off-grid.

2019 September 28, Janet Christie, “Youngest solves the no wi-fi issue in our new home: Mum’s the word”, in The Scotsman, page 8:

Linguistic experts say young people – Generation Zedders, so those in their early 20s and teens – have got a thing about full stops at the end of text messages.

2020 September 1, Nicola Whitfield, “Sorry, kids, the full stop is here to stay. Period.”, in News24, archived from the original on 2020-10-27:

Imagine showing this programme to someone currently in their teens and saying: “There you go, sonny. That’s what you Generation Zedders are missing out on. Jealous?”

2020 November 6, Mike Ward, “Annie’s a punk shocker”, in Daily Express, page 39:

So: congratulations millennials and Generation Zedders: we did it! We finally have our before and after, the one we will be experts on when it comes to passing wisdom on to our anticipated grand-younglings and beyond. For ours is the kingdom of Covid-19 and its aftermath in an increasingly totalitarian world, amen.

2021 January 1, “What a spectacular year 2020 has been; we have Covid to thank for it”, in The East African, Nation Media Group:

Cord cutting is becoming a thing in the United States as Generation ‘Zedders’ and Millennials ditch free-to-air and cable broadcasters to consume all their media, including sport, through streaming apps on their various devices.

2021 July 1, Ashley Browne, “Tell ’em they’re streaming”, in AFL Record, page 102:

Research shows that only 14 per cent of Generation Zedders have enough spare cash to weather rising prices, compared to 52 per cent of Millennials (in their 30s), 64 per cent of Generation X (in their 40s and 50s), which probably includes your parents, and 60 per cent of Baby Boomers (the post-war generation now in their 60s).

2022 February 28, Michael Kennedy, “How much longer can our finances stand these spiralling rises?”, in The Irish News, archived from the original on 2022-02-28:

We have become hopelessly entangled in our ability to express ourselves clearly over fundamental matters of biology. Younger people, Generation Zedders, have a pragmatic view of these matters. They all know who they are and are not fussed by new definitions, and neither should the older generations.

2022 June 1, Harvey Fewings, “Generational Change: Fundamental to the Human Story”, in The LOCAL News, number 7, page 8, columns 3–4:

Back in the 80s he [Ben Elton] was one of the angry young things of alternative comedy, but this time he was hosting up-and-coming acts. ‘It just goes to show that Boomers and Generation Zedders can get on after all!’

2023 May 27, Cole Moreton, Ray Burmiston, “I had to tell my kids never to Google me!: He’s just won a BAFTA and is about to star in a West End musical. Quite a turnaround, admits Ben Elton, the motormouth comic whose career went spectacularly off-key…”, in Daily Mail, page 4:


Generation Beta

Using beta as the letter that follows alpha, as in Generation Alpha.

Given all this disruption, coupled with the normalization of lower-paid work-from-home jobs and gig work, Generation Z began missing key economic milestones. They were unemployed or underemployed and unable to afford travel, or to make large purchases, such as homes and cars. College graduation rates for their children, Generation Beta, dropped precipitously.

2022, Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN:

Generation Beta will begin around 2025 & could grow up in a home without a hardline phone, media player, or desktop computer.

2022 September 1, “Jobs: Past, Present, Future”, in The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, volume 62, number 35, San Diego, Calif., →OCLC, page 17:

By 2050, Gen Z will be aged between 40 and 55, and will be travelling with their own offspring – Generation Beta, the first ‘AI natives’.

2023 December – 2024 January, “Who’s sitting next to me? How population shifts will change the face of travel”, in Wanderlust, London, →ISSN, page 156:

Now, we’re just months away from the first Generation Beta babies — and firmly on the cusp of a new era of baby naming.

2024 February 2, Lizzy Francis, “The Future Of Baby Naming Is Here, And It's Genderless”, in Tyghe Trimble, editor, Fatherly, New York, N.Y.: BDG Media, Inc., archived from the original on 2024-02-02:

The generation following Generation Alpha, to be born between the mid 2020s and the late 2030s.


mileniál

cs-noun

mileniál m anim (female equivalent mileniálka)

mileniálka (feminine)
mileniál (nominative singular)
mileniálové (nominative plural)
mileniála (genitive singular)
mileniálů (genitive plural)
mileniálovi (dative singular)
mileniálu (dative singular)
mileniálům (dative plural)
mileniála (accusative singular)
mileniály (accusative plural)
mileniále (singular vocative)
mileniálové (plural vocative)
mileniálovi (locative singular)
mileniálu (locative singular)
mileniálech (locative plural)
mileniálem (instrumental singular)
mileniály (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from English millennial, from Late Latin mīllennium.

millennial (person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century)


coronababy

We love talking about blackout babies, snowstorm sex and hurricane birth booms. Furlough fertility was a big discussion among federal workers in D.C. during government shutdowns. But I'm not convinced coronababies are going to be headlines come December.

2020 March 23, Petula Dvorak, “Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami?”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-23:

Coronavirus isn't likely to give us coronababies – but a pandemic isn't the reason that having children has shifted from an inevitability to a choice, and now, a moral question. A long time ago, "Do we have children?" became "Should we?"

2020 July 25, Sian Cain, “Why a generation is choosing to be child-free”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-08:

Understanding whether the pandemic will influence coronababies will take time, but for now, parents can do things to minimize the effects.

2020 September 3, Stav Dimitropoulos}, “Will pandemic 'coronababies' live with long-term trauma?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Partners, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-02-27:

Truly, births need a push. Predictions of a boom in coronababies were way, way off. Britain, in common with many other developed nations, is experiencing a sharp new slump in fertility, the full extent of which remains unclear. If our neighbours are anything to go by, we are in for an epidemic of empty cradles.

2021 April 2, Colin Brazier, “Britain's Covid baby bust is bleak news”, in The Spectator, London: Press Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-29:

(neologism) A baby conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic.


geriatric millennial

en-noun

geriatric millennial (plural geriatric millennials)

Coined by American writer, public speaker, and business consultant Erica Dhawan.

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Like me, Monahan is a geriatric millennial, but while it remains to be seen if I will shift, he has already moved forward.

2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN:

(humorous) A person born in the early 1980s; a xennial.


geração Z

[ʒe.ɾaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈze]

/ʒɨ.ɾɐˈsɐ̃w̃ ˈze/

Generation Z (people born between the mid-late 1990s to early 2010s)


Gen Beta

(demographics, informal) Generation Beta