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noun
- 1. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively: "one of his generation's finest songwriters" Similar
- 2. the production of something: "methods of electricity generation" Similar Opposite
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first, second, third, etc. generation. used to describe the nationality of someone belonging to the first, second, third, etc. group of people of the same age in the family to have been born in that country: She's a first-generation American (= she was born and raised in the US, but her parents were not). See more.
The meaning of GENERATION is a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor. How to use generation in a sentence.
In kinship, generation is a structural term, designating the parent–child relationship. In biology, generation also means biogenesis, reproduction, and procreation.
noun. the act or process of bringing into being; production or reproduction, esp of offspring. a successive stage in natural descent of organisms: the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces. the individuals produced at each stage.
A generation can refer to a group of people who live at the same time and are about the same age. But generation is also the act of creating something, such as income, ideas or kids. In 1965, Pete Townsend, the guitarist of The Who, wrote a song called "My Generation."
A generation is all the people in a group or country who are of a similar age, especially when they are considered as having the same experiences or attitudes.
GENERATION meaning: 1 : a group of people born and living during the same time; 2 : the people in a family born and living during the same time.
Definition of generation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
generation noun (TIME) B2. a period of about 25 to 30 years, the time it takes for a child to become an adult and take the place of their parents in society: Our family has lived in this village for generations.
Define generation. generation synonyms, generation pronunciation, generation translation, English dictionary definition of generation. n. 1. The people born and living about the same time, considered as a group: the baby-boom generation. 2. The average interval of time between the birth of...
