Generation

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English

Noun

Generation (plural Generations)
  1. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
  2. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc
  3. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.
  4. A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.
  5. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.
    • This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
    • Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
    • All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker
  6. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
    • Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog? - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I-iii
  7. (geometry) 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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
  8. (biology) The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.
    "There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova"

Verbs for Generation

activate—; beget—; compute—; expose to—; glorify—; introduce—; laud—; praise —; reckon—s; remove from—; urge—; — arises; — cherish; —s gather; —s heap; —s inherit; —involves; —issue from.

Synonyms for Generation

production, engendering, formation, race, breed, stock, kind, reproduction, creation, procreation, children, family, age, progeny, caste, era, span, period.

Antonyms for Generation

wreckage, destruction, breakdown, obliteration, dissolution, abolition.

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Thesaurus

Platonic year, abiogenesis, aeon, age, age group, annus magnus, archigenesis, authorship, begetting, beginning, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, breeding, coinage, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, creation, creative effort, crop, crossbreeding, cycle, cycle of indiction, date, day, days, development, devising, digenesis, dissogeny, endogamy, engenderment, epigenesis, epoch, era, establishment, eumerogenesis, fabrication, fathering, formation, formulation, genesis, great year, hatching, heterogenesis, histogenesis, homogenesis, improvisation, inbreeding, inception, indiction, initiation, institution, invention, isogenesis, life, lifetime, linebreeding, making do, merogenesis, metagenesis, mintage, monogenesis, multiplication, origination, orthogenesis, outbreeding, pangenesis, parthenogenesis, period, period of existence, procreation, production, proliferation, propagation, reproduction, spontaneous generation, start, time, times, xenogamy

Etymology

From Middle English generacioun < Old French génération < Latin generatio < generare (“to beget, generate”); see generate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˌʤɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/, SAMPA: /%dZEn@"reIS@n/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Translations

act of generating or begetting
origination by some process
that which is generated or brought forth
period of around thirty years
single step in the succession of natural descent
race, kind, family
geometry
biology
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Noun

Generation c.

  1. a generation

Declension

Declension of Generation
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Generation Generationen Generationer Generationerna
genitive Generations Generationens Generationers Generationernas

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