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Lost Generation
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Lost Generation
n (sometimes not capitals)
1. (Historical Terms) the large number of talented young men killed in World War I
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Movements) the generation of writers, esp American authors such as Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, active after World War I


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They learned about the lost generation who gave their lives so that freedom and democracy would prevail.
Drugs were to her (and my) generation what Paris was to the Lost Generation.
In a key speech, Mr Brown will say: "Many of the generation that some have called Thatcher's children - the lost generation - were sadly denied their chance to work.
 
 
 
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