# Silent Generation

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.

## Etymology
Popularized in a Time article in 1951. So called because they were not often politically strident.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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