Generation

Noun

 * 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
 * 1) 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
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  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.

Derived terms

 * alternate generation
 * generation gap
 * Generation X
 * spontaneous generation

Related terms

 * generate

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 generacioun: < Old French génération: < Latin generatio: < generare:; see generate.

Translations

 * Czech: generování
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:


 * Hungarian: nemzés
 * Polish: wytwarzanie


 * Czech: generování, produkce
 * Finnish:


 * Galician:
 * Polish: generowanie, wytwarzanie


 * Finnish: jälkeläiset, jälkikasvu


 * Czech: generace
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: nemzedék, generáció, emberöltő


 * Polish: pokolenie
 * Russian: поколение
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: generace
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:


 * Hungarian: nemzedék, generáció
 * Latvian: paaudze
 * Polish: pokolenie
 * Russian: поколение
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:


 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,


 * Finnish:


 * : جيل
 * : generacio
 * : dzidzime
 * : generacio
 * : dzidzime


 * : cnēo (5)
 * : naraštaj, pokolenje
 * : generación
 * : తరం (taram)
 * : generación
 * : తరం (taram)

Anagrams

 * renegation

Noun

 * 1) a generation

Related terms

 * generera
 * generationsväxling
 * ungdomsgeneration