Definition of Gen X

1. Noun. The generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s).

Exact synonyms: Generation X
Generic synonyms: Generation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gen X

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gemsbok
gemsboks
gemsbuck
gemsbucks
gemshorn
gemshorns
gemstone
gemstones
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gemul
gemutlich
gemutlichkeit
gemutlichkeits
gen
gen X (current term)
gena
genal
genal glands
genappe
genappes
genas
genbank
genco
gencos
gendarme
gendarmerie
gendarmeries
gendarmery
gendarmes

Literary usage of Gen X

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... son of Cush (Gen. x. 7 ; l Chr. i. 9). — 2. A son of Joktan (Uen. x. ... mentioned genealogically iu Gen. x. 28, recurs, as a kingdom, in the account of ..."

2. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The traditions gathered up in the ethnographic table of Gen. x. admit of confirmation as to a certain amount of general historic validity ; although all the ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Gen. x. 27. The Anglo-French dates, pi., occurs in the Liber Albus, p. 224. »DEAL (3), a thin plank of timber. (Du.) At p. 154, this word is identified with ..."

4. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"... tlm sou of Japhet (Gen. x. 4; l Chr. i. 7). The weight of authority is in I'm or of the former name. Dodanim is regarded as identical with Dardani. ..."

5. A Short View of the Whole Scripture History: With a Continuation of the by Isaac Watts, Richard Cunningham Shimeall (1831)
"Gen. x. 15. 1 Chron. i. 16. Ham-mtd'a-tha, he that troubles the law. ... Gen. x. 21. He'rod, the Great, eon of Antipa- tor; at his death, gave Galilee and ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"And the Table of Nations in Gen. x. 15 with its context leaves no doubt that the intention ... Besides the foregoing there appear the Girgashites (Gen. x. ..."

7. An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography by Lyman Coleman (1862)
"Gen. x. 19, xiv. 2; Hoe. xi. 8 — City in Naphtali Joeh. xix. 38. Adami, (Naphtali. ... Allotment of Territory 92 Almodad, Arabian tribe in Yemen Gen. x. 26. ..."

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