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Oregon Trail Generation

Oregon Trail Generation proper noun: a transitional microgeneration born from the mid- to late 1970s to the early to mid-1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.

Proper noun (1)

the Oregon Trail Generation

  1. (US) A transitional microgeneration born from the mid- to late 1970s to the early to mid-1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.
    • Now our teacher candidates are almost 100% members of the Oregon Trail Generation. They answer email on their iPhones and play computer games on their cell phones when they are bored.2009, Rhonda Christensen, “Forward”, in Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, page xix
    • "I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation."
    • "What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation."2018, Kathleen Brooks, Saving Shadows, unnumbered page

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Oregon Trail generation

Oregon Trail generation

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Oregon Trail Generation.

Forms of Oregon Trail Generation

alternative formOregon Trail generation

Origin of Oregon Trail Generation

Coined in reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.

Questions about Oregon Trail Generation

What does Oregon Trail Generation mean?
Oregon Trail Generation means a transitional microgeneration born from the mid- to late 1970s to the early to mid-1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.
What part of speech is Oregon Trail Generation?
Oregon Trail Generation is a proper noun.

Words near Oregon Trail Generation in the dictionary

  1. Oregon Rex
  2. Oregon Rexes
  3. Oregon robin
  4. Oregon State
  5. Oregon Trail
  6. Oregon Trail Generation
  7. Oregon Treaty
  8. Oregon white oak
  9. Oregonian
  10. Oregonians
  11. oregonite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Oregon Trail Generation (page history and authors); Oregon Trail generation (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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