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generation gap

nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A generation gap is the difference in outlook between young and old. A widening generation gap, bridge the generation gap.

The phrase was coined in the 1960s, when the difference was sharper than it had been before. A generation gap is about assumptions rather than about taste, though taste is where it shows.

Definitions of generation gap

  1. 1noungeneration gapThe difference in outlook between young and old.B2

    “The argument about the phone was a generation gap in miniature.”

generation gap is a difference.

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