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   Gen·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" Similar cropbatchwavetyperange
   • ▪ the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own: "the same families have lived here for generations" Similar agesan ageyearseonsan eona long timean eternityinformal:donkey's yearsyonks
   • ▪ a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent: "a third-generation Canadian"
   • ▪ a single stage in the development of a type of product: "a new generation of rear-engined sports cars"
   • 2. the production of something: "methods of electricity generation" Similar creationcausingcausationmakingengenderingspawningproductioninitiationoriginationinceptionoccasioningpromptingkindlingtriggeringinspirationOpposite destruction
   • ▪ the propagation of living organisms; procreation. Similar procreationreproductionpropagationbreedingfatheringsiringengenderingspawningcreationliterary:begetting

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin generatio(n-), from the verb generare (see generate).

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