generationwide
English
editEtymology
editFrom generation + -wide.
Adjective
editgenerationwide (not comparable)
- Affecting an entire generation
- 2007 January 2, Jon Pareles, “Pop Music and the War: The Sound of Resignation”, in New York Times[1]:
- Iraq may be turning into a quagmire and civil war like Vietnam, but the current war has not inspired talk of generationwide rebellion (perhaps because there’s no draft to pit young against old) or any colorful, psychedelically defiant counterculture.