baby boomer

See also: babyboomer, baby-boomer, and Baby Boomer

English

Alternative forms

• baby-boomer, babyboomer, Baby Boomer

Etymology

From baby +‎ boomer or baby boom +‎ -er, when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology

From baby boom +‎ -er.

Noun

baby boomer (plural baby boomers)

1. (sometimes capitalized, US, Canada) A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s.

   Synonym: boomer (clipping)

   Hyponym: Joneser (usually hyponymous)

   • 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.

Derived terms

• conspiraboomer
• echo boomer
• grandboomer

Translations

person born after Second World War

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: бейби бумър (bejbi bumǎr)
• Catalan: baby-boomer (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第二次世界大戰後生育高峰期出生的人 / 第二次世界大战后生育高峰期出生的人 (dì èr cì shìjiè dàzhàn hòu shēngyù gāofēngqī chūshēng de rén), 嬰兒潮一代 / 婴儿潮一代 (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), 団塊の世代 (ja)
• 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

  Latin: ^{(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

Further reading

• baby boomer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Timeline of generations

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• baby-boomer

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baby boomer.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbũ.meʁ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.bi ˈbũ.meh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbũ.meʁ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.bi ˈbũ.meh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbũ.meɾ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.bi ˈbũ.meɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbũ.meʁ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.bi ˈbũ.meχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbũ.meɻ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.bi ˈbũ.meɻ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbu.meʁ/ [ˈbeɪ̯.bi ˈbu.meh]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɐj.bi ˈbu.mɐɾ/ [ˈbɐj.βi ˈβu.mɐɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɐj.bi ˈbu.mɐɾ/ [ˈbɐj.βi ˈβu.mɐɾ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbu.mɐɾ/ [ˈbej.βi ˈβu.mɐɾ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.bi ˈbu.mɐɾ/ [ˈbej.βi ˈβu.mɐɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.bi ˈbu.mɐɾ/ [ˈbe.βi ˈβu.mɐɾ]

Noun

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

1. baby boomer

Further reading

• “baby boomer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026