English word senses marked with topical category "Generations": list

English word senses marked with topical category "Generations"

Total 74 word senses

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

G.I. Generation (Proper name) Synonym of greatest generation

Gen Alpha (Proper name) Generation Alpha

Gen X (Proper name) Clipping of Generation X.

Gen Xer (Noun) Alternative form of Gen-Xer

Gen Y (Proper name) Clipping of Generation Y.

Gen Y (Noun) A member of Generation Y.

Gen Z (Proper name) Clipping of Generation Z.

Gen-X (Proper name) Alternative form of Gen X.

Gen-Xer (Noun) A member of Generation X.

Gen-Zer (Noun) A member of Generation Z.

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

Generation Beta (Proper name) The generation following Generation Alpha, to be born between the mid 2020s and the late 2030s.

Generation Jones (Proper name) 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) 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) Synonym of Generation Y

Generation Xer (Noun) Synonym of Gen-Xer

Generation Y (Proper name) 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) A member of Generation Z.

Generation Zedder (Noun) Alternative form of Generation Zer.

Generation Zer (Noun) A member of Generation Z.

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

Millennial (Adjective) Alternative letter-case form of millennial

Millennial (Noun) Alternative letter-case form of millennial

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

OK Boomer (Interjection) Alternative form of OK, boomer

OK boomer (Interjection) Alternative form of OK, boomer

OK, Boomer (Interjection) Alternative form of OK, boomer

OK, boomer (Interjection) 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.

Oregon Trail Generation (Proper name) 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) Generation Y

Post-Millennials (Proper name) Synonym of Generation Z

Silent Generation (Proper name) The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

World War II generation (Proper name) Synonym of greatest generation

X Generation (Proper name) Alternative form of Generation X

X generation (Proper name) Alternative form of Generation X

Xer (Noun) Ellipsis of Gen-Xer.; a member of Generation X.

Yer (Noun) A member of Generation Y.

Z (Noun) A member of Generation Z.

Zer (Noun) A member of Generation Z.

Zillennial (Noun) 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.

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

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

baby boomlet (Noun) Any spike in birth rate that is smaller than the baby boom.

baby buster (Noun) Someone born between the baby boom and the baby boomlet; a Gen-Xer.

babyboomer (Noun) Alternative spelling of baby boomer

boomer (Noun) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).

boomer remover (Noun) COVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).

boomerish (Adjective) Characteristic of a baby boomer.

boomeritis (Noun) A narcissistic liberal worldview associated with baby boomers.

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

echo boomer (Noun) 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.

geriatric millennial (Noun) A person born in the early 1980s; a xennial.

grandboomer (Noun) A member of the baby boom generation who is a grandparent.

greatest generation (Proper name) 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) Clipping of iGeneration; synonym of Generation Z.

iGeneration (Proper name) Synonym of Generation Z

lost generation (Proper name) The generation that came of age during World War I.

millennial (Adjective) 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) 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) 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) A light rosy pink colour.

millennial pink (Adjective) Of a light rosy pink colour.

milliberal (Noun) A liberal millennial.

postboomer (Adjective) After the baby boomers.

postboomer (Noun) One born after the baby boomers.

postmillennial (Adjective) Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.

thirteener (Noun) A member of the 13th Gen; a Gen-Xer.

xennial (Noun) 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) A member of Generation Z.

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

13er (Noun) Alternative form of thirteener (“Gen-Xer”).

13th Gen (Proper name) Synonym of Generation X

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