Phrase guide

Stolen Generation

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Meaning 1

Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who as children who were removed from their families by government agencies or church missions, between approximately 1869 and (officially) 1969.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, uncountable

Examples

  • 2009, Michelle Pieper, Chapter 16: Sharing My Strengths and Winning against Obesity, Catherine A. Marshall, Elizabeth Kendall, Reva Mariah S. Gover, Disabilities: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World, page 211, I remember the stories grandma used to tell us around the fire or when it was bedtime of how she was a part of the stolen generation and how she made her way back home again.

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noun

Meaning 2

Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were removed from their families as children, within some given generation (nominal period of time over which children grow up, before having children of their own).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, plural-normally

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