lost generation

English

WOTD – 22 October 2026

Attributed to Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.

The generation that came of age during World War I.
A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.
- 1926 October 22, Ernest Hemingway, quoting Gertrude Stein, The Sun Also Rises, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, epigraph page:
  You are all a lost generation.

Azerbaijani: itirilmiş nəsil
Catalan: generació perduda f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 迷惘的一代 (míwǎng de yídài), 迷失的一代 (míshī de yídài), 失落的一代 (shīluò de yídài)
Czech: ztracená generace f
Finnish: kadotettu sukupolvi
French: génération perdue f
Georgian: დაკარგული თაობა (daḳarguli taoba)
German: verlorene Generation f
Hebrew: הדור האבוד
Italian: generazione perduta f
Japanese: 失われた世代 (うしなわれたせだい, ushinawaretasedai)
Kazakh: жоғалған ұрпақ (joğalğan urpaq)
Korean: 잃어버린 세대 (ireobeorin sedae), 상실 세대(喪失世代) (sangsilsedae)
Māori: reanga kā(w)hakina
Occitan: generacion perduda f
Persian: نسل گمشده
Polish: stracone pokolenie n
Portuguese: Geração Perdida f
Romanian: generația pierdută f
Serbo-Croatian: izgubljena generacija f
Slovak: stratená generácia f
Spanish: generación perdida f
Swedish: förlorade generationen
Vietnamese: thế hệ đã mất (世系㐌𠅎), thế hệ lạc loài (世系落類)