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Gen Alpha

Gen Alpha proper noun: generation Alpha.

Proper noun (1)

Gen Alpha

  1. (informal) Generation Alpha
    • But she does not think the online trend madness will slow down anytime soon. Enter Gen Alpha, whose eyes are already racing across screens.2025 March 7, Callie Holtermann, “Gen Z Is Tired of Chasing the Trend Cycle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Tim remembers that washing up in his classroom, too. “The kids love it so much, the word ‘skibidi’ is now part of gen Z and gen Alpha vernacular.”2025 June 25, Elle Hunt, “From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Noun (1)

Gen Alpha (plural Gen Alphas)

  1. A member of Generation Alpha.
    • Gen Alphas are the kindergarten and pre-school children of Millennials.2016, Joeri Van Den Bergh, How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generations Y and Z, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 11
    • Gen Zers and Gen Alphas are seeing the political work of their peers via the internet and are adapting a more global view of political causes.2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press, →ISBN

Proper noun (2) capitalized: gen Alpha

gen Alpha

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gen Alpha

Noun (2) capitalized: gen Alpha

gen Alpha (plural gen Alphas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gen Alpha

Examples of Gen Alpha in a sentence

  • South Park is getting ruined, and all of us Gen Alpha kids are just sitting here, watching it happen.2025 October 31, Trey Parker, “The Woman in the Hat”, in South Park, season 28, episode 2, spoken by Stan:
  • The role of parents, therefore, will span a longer age range—with many of these Gen Alphas likely to still be living at home later into their 20s.”2022, Tim Elmore, A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Maxwell Leadership...
  • Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas who have been reared on evolving technologies, may also have little tolerance for lecture-style learning (Hughes, 2020; Mohr & Mohr, 2017; Zarra, 2017).2022, Carol A. Darling, Dawn Cassidy, Sharon M. Ballard, Family Life Education: Working with Families across the Lifespan, 4th edition...

Synonyms of Gen Alpha

Forms of Gen Alpha

Proper noun
alternative formgen Alpha
Noun
pluralGen Alphas
pluralgen Alphas

Origin of Gen Alpha

Clipped compound of Generation Alpha.

Questions about Gen Alpha

What does Gen Alpha mean?
Gen Alpha means generation Alpha.
How do you use Gen Alpha in a sentence?
South Park is getting ruined, and all of us Gen Alpha kids are just sitting here, watching it happen.
What part of speech is Gen Alpha?
Gen Alpha can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Gen Alpha in the dictionary

  1. gemütlich
  2. gemütlichkeit
  3. gen
  4. gen AI
  5. gen AIs
  6. Gen Alpha
  7. Gen Alphas
  8. Gen Beta
  9. Gen Betas
  10. gen chem
  11. gen ed

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