Generation X
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (originally) A generation of people whose future is uncertain.
- (specifically) The generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II, especially those born in the 1960s and 1970s.
Etymology
Compound from English generation + English X (Christ).
Origin
English
X
Gloss
Christ
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Cygnus X-1 English
- X English
- X-Verse English
- X-ray English
- Xer English
- Xmas English
- aerogeneration English
- autogeneration English
- biogeneration English
- cogeneration English
- congeneration English
- cybergeneration English
- electrogeneration English
- generation English
- generational English
- generationer English
- generationism English
- generationwide English
- hydrogeneration English
- intergeneration English
- intrageneration English
- microgeneration English
- multigeneration English
- neogeneration English
- overgeneration English
- photogeneration English
- pregeneration English
- regeneration English
- subgeneration English
- trigeneration English
- generacion Middle French
- X
- Xer
- Xmas
- X-ray
- X-Verse
- generation
- Cygnus X-1
- generationer
- generational
- cogeneration
- regeneration
- congeneration
- trigeneration
- generationism
- pregeneration
- biogeneration
- subgeneration
- neogeneration
- autogeneration
- aerogeneration
- overgeneration
- generationwide
- intrageneration
- microgeneration
- intergeneration
- photogeneration
- hydrogeneration
- multigeneration
- cybergeneration
- electrogeneration