Phrase Hound found 76 phrases and 28 compound words that contain generation. The most common are listed below. Open generation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 76
- next generationThe succeeding generation.
- new-generationOf or pertaining to the most recent version of something.
- Generation XA generation of people whose future is uncertain; a lost generation.
- second-generationOf or pertaining to someone whose parents are immigrants.
- lost generationThe generation that came of age during World War I.
- first-generationOf or relating to an immigrant or their family.
- Generation ZThe generation of people born between the mid-late 1990s and early 2010s, following Generation Y, typically defined as beginning with births in 1997 and ending with births in 2012.
- Power Generation
- Generation YThe generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s following Generation X.
- X GenerationAlternative form of Generation X: A generation of people whose future is uncertain; a lost generation.
- Generation BetaThe generation following Generation Alpha, defined as those born between the mid-late 2020s to the 2030s.
- Lead Generation
- Third-generation
- Generation AlphaThe generation following Generation Z, born between the early to mid-2010s and the mid to late-2020s.
- Generation JonesThe generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s; they are the younger subset of the baby boomers but are sometimes conceptualized as being sandwiched between the older subset of baby boomers and Gen-Xers.
- generation timeThe average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population.
- Code-generation
- Younger Generation
- greatest generationThe generation of people who came of age during the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War II, especially those born from the early 1900s to late 1920s.
- Electricity Generation
- generation gapA disconnect between members of one generation and members of the next based on the later generation developing habits, attitudes, and preferences inconsistent with the experience of the former.
- Generation KA demographic cohort identified in 2015, consisting of 13- to 20-year-olds who are relatively anxious, intent on being unique, and concerned about inequality.
- Stolen GenerationCollectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who as children who were removed from their families by government agencies or church missions, between approximately 1869 and (officially) 1969.
- Silent GenerationThe generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
- Beat GenerationA group of countercultural American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their most important works are Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch …
Compound words 28
- regenerationRebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
- cogenerationThe production of heat and/or power from the waste energy of an industrial process.
- microgenerationThe generation of zero-carbon or low-carbon heat and power by individuals, small businesses and communities to meet their own needs.
- cybergenerationThe generation of people who grew up with computer technology and the Internet.
- generationerA member of a specified generation.
- autogenerationautomatic generation
- generationwideAffecting an entire generation
- intragenerationWithin a generation
- overgenerationThe generation of too much or too many of something; overproduction.
- aerogenerationPower generation by means of the wind.