lost generation

English

Etymology

Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.

Proper noun

the lost generation

  1. The generation that came of age during World War I.
  2. A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.

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