English Explanatory Dictionary

lost generation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The generation that came of age during World War I.
  2. A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.

Word forms

lost generation the lost generation

Etymology

Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.

Related words

greatest generation Silent Generation
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