baby boomer

See also: baby-boomer and babyboomer

English

Alternative forms

• baby-boomer, babyboomer

Etymology

From baby boom +‎ -er.

Noun

baby boomer (plural baby boomers)

1. (sometimes capitalized) A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.

   Synonym: boomer

   • 1982 January 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Baby Boom Comes of Age”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Hyponyms

• Joneser (usually hyponymous)

Derived terms

• echo boomer
• grandboomer

Translations

person born after Second World War

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第だい二に次じ世界せかい大戰たいせん後のち生育せいいく高峰こうほう期き出生しゅっしょう的てき人ひと／第だい二に次じ世界せかい大だい战后きさき生育せいいく高峰こうほう期き出生しゅっしょう的てき人ひと (dì èr cì shìjiè dàzhàn hòu shēngyù gāofēngqī chūshēng de rén), 嬰兒えいじ潮しお一いち代だい／婴儿潮しお一いち代だい (yīng'ércháoyīdài)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: babyboomer (nl)
• Finnish: suurten ikäluokkien edustaja, suuriin ikäluokkiin kuuluva (individual); suuret ikäluokat pl (baby boomers as generation)
• French: bébé-boumeur m, bébé-boumeuse f, baby boomer (fr) (anglicism), baby-boomer (fr) (anglicism)
• German: Babyboomer (de) m, Babyboomerin (de) f
• Greek: παιδί της μεταπολίτευσης n (paidí tis metapolítefsis), μπούμερ m or f or n (boúmer)
• Hebrew: בייבי בומר
• Hungarian: a baby boom generáció tagja, (in Hungarian history) Ratkó-gyerek (referring to the Ratkó period)
• Italian: baby boomer (it) m
• Japanese: ベビーブーマー (ja) (bebībūmā), 団塊だんかいの世代せだい
• Korean: 베이비 부머 (beibi bumeo)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: baby boomer m or f
• Russian: челове́к, роди́вшийся в пери́од демографи́ческого взры́ва m (čelovék, rodívšijsja v períod demografíčeskovo vzrýva) (no exact terms exists), бэ́би-бу́мер m (bɛ́bi-búmer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} беби бум генерација

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} bebi bum generacija

• Slovak: generácia baby boomers
• Spanish: baby boomer
• Swedish: babyboomare c, köttberg (sv) n
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: בעיבי בומער m (beybi bumer), בייבי בומער m (beybi bumer)

See also

• baby buster

Timeline of generations

Further reading

• baby boomers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• baby-boomer

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baby boomer.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbu.meʁ/

Noun

baby boomer m or f by sense (plural baby boomers)

1. baby boomer