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View synonyms for Generation X

Generation X

[ jen-uh-rey-shuhn eks ]

noun

  1. the generation born between about 1966 and 1980.


Generation X

noun

  1. members of the generation of people born between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s who are highly educated and underemployed, reject consumer culture, and have little hope for the future
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌGeneration ˈXer, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Generation X1

First recorded in 1990–95; named after the novel of the same name by Douglas Coupland (born 1961), German-born Canadian artist and novelist
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Generation X1

C20: from the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
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Example Sentences

Looking back, I feel like there was something really magical about that whole period: Generation X, Grunge, slackers.

It is an empathic style that earned Blume the devotion of Generation X just as those kids came of age and began craving a guide.

Generation X is now middle-aged and ready to revisit its formative years.

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