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Generation Zed

Generation Zed is the alternative form of Generation Z.

Meaning of Generation Z

Proper noun

Generation Z

  1. The generation of people born between the mid-late 1990s and early 2010s, following Generation Y, typically defined as beginning with births in 1997 and ending with births in 2012.
    • Generation Z, those born after 1997, also known as the Millennials or the “I” generation, grew up watching the fall of the World Trade Center, the crash of the financial markets, and the intoxicating greed of financial moguls.2013, Robert E. Gunther, William S. Kane, Leigh Thompson, Martha I. Finney, The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection), FT Press, →ISBN

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Forms of Generation Zed

pluralGeneration Zeds

Questions about Generation Zed

What is Generation Zed the alternative form of?
Generation Zed is the alternative form of Generation Z.

Words near Generation Zed in the dictionary

  1. Generation Yer
  2. Generation Yers
  3. Generation Z
  4. Generation Z stare
  5. Generation Z stares
  6. Generation Zed
  7. Generation Zedder
  8. Generation Zedders
  9. Generation Zeds
  10. Generation Zer
  11. Generation Zs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Generation Zed (page history and authors); Generation Z (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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