generation x

1. 1.

   the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)

   Synonymsgen X

   Broadergeneration

Questions about generation x

What does generation x mean?

generation x means "the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)".

What is another word for generation x?

Close synonyms include gen X. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is generation x a common word?

generation x 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.