All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Millennials"
Parent categories: Generations, Age, Collectives, Demography, People, Sociology, Human, Time, Sciences, Statistics, Social sciences, Formal sciences, Mathematics, Society
Total 18 word senses
- Gen Y (Proper name) [English] Clipping of Generation Y.
- Gen Y (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Y.
- Generation Next (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Generation Y
- 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.
- Millennial (Adjective) [English] Alternative letter-case form of millennial
- Millennial (Noun) [English] Alternative letter-case form of millennial
- Peter Pan generation (Proper name) [English] Generation Y
- Yer (Noun) [English] A member of Generation Y.
- 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 boomlet (Noun) [English] A child of a baby boomer, born during the baby boomlet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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