"Generation X" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˌdʒɛnəɹeɪʃn̩ ˈɛks/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌdʒɛnəˌɹeɪʃən ˈɛks/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɛks Etymology: From generation + X (“used to represent an unknown quantity or unknown value”). Sense 2 (“the post-baby boom generation”) was popularized by the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by the Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland (born 1961). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|generation|X|t2=used to represent an unknown quantity or unknown value}} generation + X (“used to represent an unknown quantity or unknown value”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Generation X}} Generation X
  1. (originally) A generation of people whose future is uncertain; a lost generation. Tags: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, US Categories (topical): Age
    Sense id: en-Generation_X-en-name-w3G09WHz Disambiguation of Age: 61 39
  2. (specifically) The generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II, especially those born from the mid 1960s to early 1980s, sometimes characterized as cynical, disaffected, lacking direction in life, and unwilling to take part fully in society. Tags: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, US, specifically Categories (topical): Collectives, Sociology Synonyms: MTV generation, 13th Gen [dated], Gen X, Gen-X, generation X, X generation, X Generation Derived forms: Generation Xer, Gen-Xer, Gen Xer, Xer, Generation XL, xennial Related terms: baby buster, baby boomer, echo boomer, millennial, zoomer Translations (generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II): Generasie X (Afrikaans), الجيل إكس (Arabic), X սերունդ (X serund) (Armenian), Xeneración X (Asturian), X belaunaldia (Basque), Generació X [feminine] (Catalan), X世代 (X shìdài) (Chinese Mandarin), Generace X [feminine] (Czech), Generatie X [feminine] (Dutch), X-põlvkond (Estonian), X-sukupolvi (Finnish), génération X [feminine] (French), თაობა X (taoba X) (Georgian), Γενιά Χ (Geniá Ch) [feminine] (Greek), X generáció (Hungarian), X nemzedék (Hungarian), Generaciono X (Ido), Generazione X [feminine] (Italian), ジェネレーションX (Japanese), X세대 (Xsedae) (Korean), Генерација X (Generacija X) [feminine] (Macedonian), Generasi X (Malay), nifşê X [masculine] (Northern Kurdish), jenerasyona X [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), Generasjon X [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), Generacion X [feminine] (Occitan), Pokolenie X [neuter] (Polish), Geração X [feminine] (Portuguese), Generația X (Romanian), Поколе́ние X (Pokolénije X) [neuter] (Russian), Ingènneru X (Sardinian), Генера́ција X [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Generácija X [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Generácia X (Slovak), generación X [feminine] (Spanish), เจเนอเรชันเอกซ์ (Thai), X jenerasyonu (Turkish), X kuşağı (Turkish), Покоління X (Pokolinnja X) [neuter] (Ukrainian), جنریشن ایکس (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-Generation_X-en-name-vCnr4q~e Disambiguation of Collectives: 31 69 Disambiguation of Sociology: 24 76 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 94 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 6 94 Disambiguation of 'generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II': 6 94

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II",
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      "word": "X世代"
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      "sense": "generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II",
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      ],
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      "sense": "generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II",
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