| generation | | |
| n. (group) | 1. coevals, contemporaries, generation | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age. |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ youth culture | young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture. |
| ~ peer group | contemporaries of the same status. |
| n. (group) | 2. generation | group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent. |
| ~ biological group | a group of plants or animals. |
| ~ posterity | all future generations. |
| ~ baby-boom generation, baby boom | the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II. |
| ~ gen x, generation x | the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s). |
| n. (time) | 3. generation | the normal time between successive generations.; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade" |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| n. (time) | 4. generation | a stage of technological development or innovation.; "the third generation of computers" |
| ~ phase, stage | any distinct time period in a sequence of events.; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected" |
| n. (event) | 5. generation, genesis | a coming into being. |
| ~ beginning | the event consisting of the start of something.; "the beginning of the war" |
| n. (act) | 6. generation | the production of heat or electricity.; "dams were built for the generation of electricity" |
| ~ production | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale.; "he introduced more efficient methods of production" |
| n. (act) | 7. generation, multiplication, propagation | the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production. |
| ~ facts of life, procreation, breeding, reproduction | the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring. |
| ~ biogeny, biogenesis | the production of living organisms from other living organisms. |
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