noun:

• lost generation

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be lost in thought; to be immersed in reverie

noun:

• the recovery of lost territory; recovering (regaining) lost ground (one's former position); fence-mending - four character idiom

noun:

• lost ball

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be lost in lust for riches; to throw all caution and conscience away in pursuit of riches ➜ 目が眩む

noun:

• world of the lost; human world; this world - Buddhism term

noun:

• lost article

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing ➜ 無くなる【なくなる】
• to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed ➜ 無くなる【なくなる】
• to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence) ➜ 無くなる【なくなる】

noun:

• distance in the standings between two teams expressed as the difference in number of games won or lost - Baseball term

expression / noun:

• lost decade; decade of economic stagnation
• decade in Japan from 1992 to 2002

noun:

• lost sheep

noun:

• lost profit

noun:

• feeling lost like a stray dog

noun:

• replacement of lost teeth - Biology term

expression:

• being lost in deep thought - four character idiom

noun:

• lost work; lost writings
• partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations
• work of a superior quality

noun:

• lost battle

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lost in thought

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

noun:

• lost child department; place to bring lost children to

expression / noun:

• person who has lost something they used to rely on; a monkey fallen from the tree [literal] - idiom

interjection:

• get lost; get out of my sight; scram; beat it; buzz off; go away ➜ 消え失せる

noun:

• lost cluster - IT term

expression:

• search thoroughly for something lost before you suspect someone of stealing it; be on sure ground before you accuse somebody - proverb

noun:

• lost generation - abbreviation ➜ ロストジェネレーション