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BABY BOOM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baby boom mean?
• BABY BOOM (noun)
The noun BABY BOOM has 1 sense:
1. the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
Familiarity information: BABY BOOM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
baby-boom generation; baby boom
Hypernyms ("baby boom" is a kind of...):
generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)
Meronyms (members of "baby boom"):
baby boomer; boomer (a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s)
Context examples
Scientists have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long growth blip among southwestern Native Americans between 500 and 1300 A.D. It was a time when the early features of civilization—including farming and food storage—had matured to a level where birth rates likely exceeded the highest in the world today.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
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