Generation

Quick meaning: Generation is a noun meaning The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

Meaning

The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

More Meanings

1. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
2. (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
3. (now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
4. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
5. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
6. The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

Example Sentences

This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?

Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.

All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker

Word Forms

• generations

Synonyms for generation

Depending on context, synonyms include propagation, contemporaries, coevals, multiplication.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include propagation, multiplication, coevals, contemporaries, production, produce.

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