"baby boomer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: baby boomers [plural]
Etymology: From baby boom + -er. Etymology templates: {{af|en|baby boom|-er|id2=occupation}} baby boom + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} baby boomer (plural baby boomers)
  1. (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. Tags: capitalized, sometimes Categories (topical): Baby boomers, People Synonyms: boomer, baby-boomer, babyboomer Hyponyms: Joneser (english: usually hyponymous) Derived forms: echo boomer, grandboomer Related terms: baby buster Translations (person born after Second World War): 第二次世界大戰後生育高峰期出生的人 (Chinese Mandarin), 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) (Chinese Mandarin), 嬰兒潮一代 (Chinese Mandarin), 婴儿潮一代 (yīng'ércháoyīdài) (Chinese Mandarin), babyboomer (Dutch), suurten ikäluokkien edustaja (Finnish), suuriin ikäluokkiin kuuluva (english: individual) (Finnish), suuret ikäluokat (english: baby boomers as generation) [plural] (Finnish), bébé-boumeur [masculine] (French), bébé-boumeuse [feminine] (French), baby boomer (english: anglicism) (French), baby-boomer (english: anglicism) (French), Babyboomer [masculine] (German), Babyboomerin [feminine] (German), παιδί της μεταπολίτευσης (paidí tis metapolítefsis) [neuter] (Greek), μπούμερ (boúmer) [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Greek), בייבי בומר (Hebrew), a baby boom generáció tagja (Hungarian), Ratkó-gyerek (referring to the Ratkó period) (note: in Hungarian history) (Hungarian), baby boomer [masculine] (Italian), ベビーブーマー (bebībūmā) (Japanese), 団塊の世代 (Japanese), 베이비 부머 (beibi bumeo) (Korean), baby boomer [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), бэ́би-бу́мер (bɛ́bi-búmer) [masculine] (Russian), generácia baby boomers (Slovak), baby boomer (Spanish), babyboomare [common-gender] (Swedish), köttberg [neuter] (Swedish), בעיבי בומער (beybi bumer) [masculine] (Yiddish), בייבי בומער (beybi bumer) [masculine] (Yiddish)

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      "sense": "person born after Second World War",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person born after Second World War",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "köttberg"
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      "sense": "person born after Second World War",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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