lost generation

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Group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; more broadly, the entire post-World War I American generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. The writers considered themselves "lost" because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others
generation which has lost its direction, generation without goals or aspirations
lost generation

    Hyphenation

    lost gen·e·ra·tion

    Turkish pronunciation

    lôst cenıreyşın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈlôst ˌʤenərˈāsʜən/ /ˈlɔːst ˌʤɛnɜrˈeɪʃən/
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