GENERATION
NOUNS
► RACE a generation → 1549 obs.
► SUCCESSIONS (future or successive) generations → c1430 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BOOMER a member of the so-called baby-boom generation born between 1945 and 1960 → 1990s US
► GENERATION Xer a member of Generation X (a generation of young people about whose future there is uncertainty; a lost generation; later, a generation of young people (esp. North Americans reaching adulthood in the 1980s and 1990s) perceived to disaffected, directionless, or irresponsible, and reluctant to participate in society) → 1989 orig. Amer
► GENERATION Yer a member of Generation Y (the generation of people following Generation , esp. regarded as having attitudes or values which are in direct contrast to those of the preceding generation) → 1996
► SLACKER a person regarded as one of a large group or generation of young people, esp. in the early to mid 1990s, characterized by apathy, aimlessness, and lack of ambition → 1990 US
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