generation gap

1. 1.

   a difference between the views of young people and their parents

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Questions about generation gap

What does generation gap mean?

generation gap means "a difference between the views of young people and their parents".

Is generation gap a common word?

generation gap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.