baby boomer
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baby boomer¹
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From baby + boomer, or from baby boom + -er, when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.
noun baby boomers · baby-boomer · babyboomer · Baby Boomer
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A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and 1964.
The baby boomers, Americans born between 1946 and 1961, are increasingly discovering that the cohorts with whom they crowded into maternity wards, elementary schools, colleges and entry-level jobs are now clogging the fast track to the top as well, demographers say.
Similar: boomer
Baby Boomer²
noun Baby Boomers
- Alternative letter-case form of baby boomer
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noun person born after Second World War
| Español | baby boomer |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 베이비 부머 beibi bumeo |
| 日本語 | ベビーブーマー bebībūmā, 団塊の世代 |
| 中文 | 第二次世界大戰後生育高峰期出生的人 /第二次世界大战后生育高峰期出生的人 dì èr cì shìjiè dàzhàn hòu shēngyù gāofēngqī chūshēng de rén, 嬰兒潮一代 /婴儿潮一代 yīng'ércháoyīdài |
| Português | baby boomer |
| Français | bébé-boumeur, bébé-boumeuse, baby boomer, baby-boomer |
| Deutsch | Babyboomer, Babyboomerin |
| Italiano | baby boomer |
| Ελληνικά | παιδί της μεταπολίτευσης paidí tis metapolítefsis, μπούμερ boúmer |
| Русский | бэ́би-бу́мер bɛ́bi-búmer |
| עברית | בייבי בומר |
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