Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The generation following the post–World War II baby boom, especially people born in the United States and Canada from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.
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- proper noun the generation of people born after the
baby boom that followedWorld War II , especially those born in the 1960s and 1970s
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- noun the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Generation X, a novel by Douglas Coupland (born 1961), Canadian writer.]
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