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    Gen
    /jen/

    noun

    • 1. information: "you've got more gen on him than we have"

    verb

    • 1. find out about: "we genned up on the agencies that had done the work"
  2. The meaning of GEN is generationoften used in combination. How to use gen in a sentence.

  3. short for generation: used when saying whether a product or device belongs to the first, second, etc. group of similar products or devices to be developed: Gen 2 night-vision goggles came out in the 1970s.

  4. The meaning of GENERATION is a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor. How to use generation in a sentence.

  5. Generation definition: the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time. See examples of GENERATION used in a sentence.

  6. used to describe the nationality of someone belonging to the first, second, third, etc. group of people of the same age in the family to have been born in that country: She's a first-generation American (= she was born and raised in the US, but her parents were not). See more. Fewer examples.

  7. 1. knowledge acquired through experience or study. 2. knowledge of specific and timely events or situations; news. 3. the act of informing or the condition of being informed. 4. a. an office, agency, etc, providing information.

  8. generation. (dʒenəreɪʃən ) Word forms: plural generations. 1. countable noun B1. A generation is all the people in a group or country who are of a similar age, especially when they are considered as having the same experiences or attitudes. ...the younger generation of Party members. [ + of]

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