zoomer
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]The sense of "active baby boomer" is influenced by the word boomer, and is attributed to Moses Znaimer.[1]
Noun
[edit]zoomer (plural zoomers)
- That which zooms.
- 2011, Gavin Lyall, Uncle Target:
- The car zoomed – the driver was definitely a zoomer – away to some unknown car pool […]
- A kind of small swim fin.
- (neologism) A baby boomer with a very active lifestyle.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Portmanteau from Generation Z and boomer (“baby boomer, a person born between 1945 and early 1960s”). Merriam-Webster identified the earliest use in its current sense as being made on 16 March 2016 by an aviation engineer named Jennie Santoro at HNTB Seattle, in a presentation called "Boomers to Zoomers: Passing the Torch to Generation Z!"
However, the word was ultimately popularized through a variant of the Wojak meme which originated on 4chan on July 21st, 2018, and from there spread to other platforms. Accordingly, Urban Dictionary view statistics suggest that it began gaining traction in mid-2018 before peaking in January 2020.
Noun
[edit]zoomer (plural zoomers)
- A member of Generation Z. [from late 2010s]
- Synonyms: Generation Z, Generation Zer, Gen Z, Gen-Zer, Z, Zer
- Coordinate term: millennial
- 2019 December 27, Anya Strzemien, “13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020”, in New York Times[1]:
- Hug a Boomer/Xer/Millennial/Zoomer In case you missed it: Gen Z is mad at boomers for the state of the world; boomers are mad at Gen Z for being so dismissive; Gen X feels forgotten and yet resents even themselves; […]
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Russian: зу́мер (zúmer)
See also
[edit]Timeline of generations |
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Further reading
[edit]- “Words We're Watching: 'Zoomer'”, in Merriam-Webster, 2020 January 13
Zoomer Wojak – KnowYourMeme[2], (Can we date this quote?) 23 And Z: America's Freshly-Minted Adult Generation Lurches Into A Brave Real World – Builder Online (18 May 2020)
References
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From zoom.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]zoomer
- (cinematography, photography) to zoom, to zoom in
- Antonym: dézoomer
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | simple | zoomer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | zoomant /zu.mɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | zoomé /zu.me/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | zoome /zum/ |
zoomes /zum/ |
zoome /zum/ |
zoomons /zu.mɔ̃/ |
zoomez /zu.me/ |
zooment /zum/ |
imperfect | zoomais /zu.mɛ/ |
zoomais /zu.mɛ/ |
zoomait /zu.mɛ/ |
zoomions /zu.mjɔ̃/ |
zoomiez /zu.mje/ |
zoomaient /zu.mɛ/ | |
past historic2 | zoomai /zu.me/ |
zoomas /zu.ma/ |
zooma /zu.ma/ |
zoomâmes /zu.mam/ |
zoomâtes /zu.mat/ |
zoomèrent /zu.mɛʁ/ | |
future | zoomerai /zum.ʁe/ |
zoomeras /zum.ʁa/ |
zoomera /zum.ʁa/ |
zoomerons /zum.ʁɔ̃/ |
zoomerez /zum.ʁe/ |
zoomeront /zum.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | zoomerais /zum.ʁɛ/ |
zoomerais /zum.ʁɛ/ |
zoomerait /zum.ʁɛ/ |
zoomerions /zu.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zoomeriez /zu.mə.ʁje/ |
zoomeraient /zum.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | zoome /zum/ |
zoomes /zum/ |
zoome /zum/ |
zoomions /zu.mjɔ̃/ |
zoomiez /zu.mje/ |
zooment /zum/ |
imperfect2 | zoomasse /zu.mas/ |
zoomasses /zu.mas/ |
zoomât /zu.ma/ |
zoomassions /zu.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
zoomassiez /zu.ma.sje/ |
zoomassent /zu.mas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | zoome /zum/ |
— | zoomons /zu.mɔ̃/ |
zoomez /zu.me/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]zoomer
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- en:Age
- en:Footwear
- en:Generations
- en:People
- en:Sociology
- en:Swimwear
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- fr:Cinematography
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