generation
/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit; The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation
- plural
- generations
Meanings
- 1
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit
I don't understand your generation.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
You belong to the next generation.
Tatoeba · Swift · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation
- 3
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation
- 4
Descendants, progeny; offspring
- 5
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time
- 6
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology
- 7
A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another
- 8
Race, family; breedrare
- 9
The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etcrare
- 10
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versionsrare