Windrush generation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The generation of people who emigrated from the West Indies to Great Britain after the Second World War.

Word forms

Windrush generation the Windrush generation

Etymology

From HMT Empire Windrush, which carried many West Indian ex-servicemen and migrants to the United Kingdom.

Related words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.