Synonyms and antonyms of Generations in British Thesaurus

generation (noun)

a group of people in society who are born and live around the same time

generation (noun)

the number of years that usually pass between the birth of a person and the birth of that person’s children

the generation gap (noun)

the difference in opinions or behaviour between older and younger people which often causes problems between them

baby boomer (noun)

someone who was born during the baby boom after the Second World War

boomer (noun)

Americaninformal a baby boomer

the Beat Generation ()

those young people in the 1950s who did not accept the usual ideas and rules of Western society, living together in groups and sometimes taking illegal drugs

Generation X (noun)

the people born in the 1960s and 1970s, who are sometimes seen as having no strong moral values

Generation Y (noun)

the generation of people born from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s

Generation Z (noun)

the generation of people born from the mid 1990s until the present day

Generation K (noun)

young people, especially young women, born between 1995 and 2002

millennial (noun)

a person who became an adult around the year 2000

born free (noun)

South African in South Africa and Zimbabwe, someone who was born after the country attained democracy

generational (adjective)

relating to a particular generation or to the relationship between generations

intergenerational (adjective)

relating to more than one generation (=group of people who were born at about the same time)

the older/younger generation ()

the people in society at a particular time who are old or young

the younger generation ()

the youngest adults in a society