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Silent Generation

Silent Generation proper noun: the generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

Proper noun

the Silent Generation

  1. The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
    • The Silent Generation produced such counterculture leaders as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Huey Newton and Abbie Hoffman.
    • Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s.2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic

Origin of Silent Generation

Popularized in a Time article in 1951. So called because they were not often politically strident.

Questions about Silent Generation

What does Silent Generation mean?
Silent Generation means the generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
What part of speech is Silent Generation?
Silent Generation is a proper noun.

Words near Silent Generation in the dictionary

  1. silent film
  2. silent films
  3. silent forest syndrome
  4. silent fox
  5. silent fox gesture
  6. Silent Generation
  7. Silent Grove
  8. silent h
  9. silent h's
  10. silent key
  11. silent keys

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