Generation Xnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdʒen.ə ˈreɪ.ʃən ˈeks/us/ˌdʒen.ə ˈreɪ.ʃən ˈeks/a way of referring to the group of people who were born in the 1960s and 1970s:
Members of Generation X are often portrayed as having no clear direction to their lives.
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Twentieth century
- art deco
- Axis Powers
- baby-boomer
- boomer
- D-Day
- flapper
- Generation Y
- Georgian
- holocaust
- modernist
- Nazi
- postwar
- pre-war
- prohibition
- speakeasy
- the Gestapo
- the Great Depression
- the roaring twenties
- WWI
- WWII
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