Lost Generation
Proper noun
Meaning
The generation that came of age during World War I.
A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
" : 29–30 Literary Themes The literature figures of the Lost Generation tended to use common themes in their writing.
Stein is credited with bringing the term "Lost Generation" into use.
The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s " Lost Generation " expatriate community.
Millennials truly are the new Lost Generation.