gen : Idioms & Phrases

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Etymology
(1) From Gr. -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (see Genus). (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s born. Cf. F. -gène.
Definitions
  1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
  2. A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.
Webster 1913

gen x

  • noun the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
    generation X.
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