Silent Generation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

Word forms

Silent Generation the Silent Generation

Etymology

Popularized in a Time article in 1951. So called because they were not often politically strident.

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