MTV generation
MTV generation noun: the generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
Noun
MTV generation
- The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
- But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346
- Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images […]1996, James Robert Walker; Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96
Examples of MTV generation in a sentence
- The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311:
- Incidentally, the emphasis on the necessity of visual communication for the MTV generation is overblown.2025 November 2 (last accessed), “Let’s Get Real! Magritte and the Nature of Reality”, in baptistcenter.com, archived from the original on...
Questions about MTV generation
- What does MTV generation mean?
- MTV generation means the generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
- How do you use MTV generation in a sentence?
- The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.
- What part of speech is MTV generation?
- MTV generation is a noun.
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