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- DictionaryGen·er·a·tion/ˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively: "one of his generation's finest songwriters"
- 2. the production of something: "methods of electricity generation"
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Learn the various meanings and uses of the word generation, from biology and genealogy to culture and history. See examples, synonyms, related phrases and articles, and word history of generation.
A generation is all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. It also is "the average period, generally considered to be about 20–30 years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children."
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noun. the act or process of bringing into being; production or reproduction, esp of offspring. a successive stage in natural descent of organisms: the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces. the individuals produced at each stage.
- [countable + singular or plural verb] all the people who were born at about the same time. the younger/older generation. My generation have grown up with the internet.
- [countable] the average time in which children grow up, become adults and have children of their own, (usually considered to be about 30 years) Many more people go to university now than a generation ago.
- [countable, uncountable] a single stage in the history of a family. stories passed down from generation to generation. Five generations of his family had been farmers.
- [countable, usually singular] a group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity. He influenced my generation more than any other actor.
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Definitions of generation. noun. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent. see more. noun. the normal time between successive generations. “they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade” see more. noun. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.
