What is "millennials"

n. (plural of millennial English)

Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y, abbreviated to Gen Y) are the demographic cohort between Generation X and Generation Z. There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends. Demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and use the mid-1990s to the early 2000s as final birth years for the Millennial Generation.

Millennials are the demographic cohort following Generation X who were born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

Millennial or millennials may also refer to:

• Adjective relating to a millennium, a thousand-year period
• Millennialism, a set of Christian beliefs
• Millennial (podcast), a blog created Megan Tan beginning in 2015.
• Millennial (blog), a Catholic young adult blog
• "Millenial", a song by the band Physical Therapy
• Millennial Media, an advertising company based in Baltimore