Meaning

7 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable)Information.

    informal term for information

  2. (uncountable)Information about the location of a bird.

  3. (slang, uncountable)Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

  4. (slang)A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).

  5. (informal)A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).

  6. (in compounds, informal)A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.

  7. (UK, obsolete, slang)A shilling.

Examples

20 sentences
  1. It's a Gen Z word for "awesome."

  2. Gen Z wants everything, but doesn't do anything.

  3. There are 61 million Gen Zers in the U.S.

  4. Gun violence is another crucial issue for Gen Zers.

  5. Instant noodles are the official food of Gen Z.

Origin

Clipping of general. Shortened from generate and generator. Clipping of generation.

Clipping of general.

Shortened from generate and generator.

Clipping of generation.

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Forms

plural: gens
Singulargen

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedproc-gen

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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