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Lost gen·er·a·tion

/lôst ˌjenəˈrāSHən/

noun
- 1. the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years.
- ▪ an unfulfilled generation coming to maturity during a period of instability.
Word Origin phrase applied by Gertrude Stein to disillusioned young American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound, who went to live in Paris in the 1920s.
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Generation that came of age during World War I, born from 1883 to 1900
The Lost Generation is the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s. Wikipedia
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