lost generation

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.

Translations

Azerbaijani: itirilmiş nəsil Catalan: generació perduda f Chinese: Mandarin: 迷惘的一代 (míwǎng de yídài), 迷失的一代 (míshī de yídài), 失落的一代 (shīluò de yídài) Czech: ztracená generace f Finnish: kadotettu sukupolvi French: génération perdue f Georgian: დაკარგული თაობა (daḳarguli taoba) German: verlorene Generation f Hebrew: הדור האבוד‎ Italian: generazione perduta f Japanese: 失われた世代 (うしなわれたせだい, ushinawaretasedai) Kazakh: жоғалған ұрпақ (joğalğan ūrpaq) Korean: 잃어버린 세대 (ireobeorin sedae), 상실세대(喪失世代) (sangsilsedae) Occitan: generacion perduda f Persian: نسل گمشده‎ Romanian: generația pierdută f Serbo-Croatian: izgubljena generacija f Slovak: stratená generácia f Spanish: generación perdida f Swedish: förlorade generationen Vietnamese: thế hệ đã mất (世系㐌𠅎), thế hệ lạc loài (世系落類)

See also

• greatest generation
• Silent Generation

Further reading

• Lost Generation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia