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noun |
| definition 1: |
A generation is a level or single step in the history of a family. These generations are like steps in a ladder. Your parents are at the step above you, for example, and your grandparents are at the step above them.
You and your parents are separated by one generation. You and your grandparents are separated by two generations. |
| definition 2: |
A generation is the whole group of living things or people born at one particular level or step in a family. When we talk about the "next generation," for example, we are talking about the children of the people or animals who are parents now.
Brothers, sisters, and cousins are of the same generation in a family.All the money and property will be passed down to the next generation of the family.The earlier generations of the family had all been farming people, but this generation prefers life in the city. |
| definition 3: |
A generation is the period of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their children, or a period of time that is about that long. For humans, a generation is considered to be about twenty or thirty years.
Our pizza recipe has been in our family for five generations.Technology has changed a lot in just one generation. |
| definition 4: |
A generation is the whole group of people in a society who were born at roughly the same time.
People of my grandfather's generation did not have computers when they were young. |
| definition 5: |
Generation is the act or process of generating. When something is generated, it is created or produced.
Windmills can be used for the generation of electricity.- synonyms:
- creation, production
- similar words:
- development, launch, start
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life |
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