Definitions for generation

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generation gen·er·a·tion

Spelling: [jen-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃən/

Generation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 653 anagrams from letters in generation (aeeginnort).

Definitions for generation

noun

1. the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time:
2. the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
3. a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc. Compare Beat Generation, Lost Generation.
4. a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time:
5. a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.
6. a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor (often used in combination):
7. the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.
8. the act or process of generating; procreation.
9. the state of being generated.
10. production by natural or artificial processes; evolution, as of heat or sound.
11. Biology. one complete life cycle. one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase:
12. Mathematics. the production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure.
13. Physics. one of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction.
14. (in duplicating processes, as photocopying, film, etc.) the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work.

Origin of generation

1250-1300; Middle English generacioun Middle French Latin generātiōn- (stem of generātiō). See generate, -ion

Examples for generation

For not only leadership is passed from generation to generation, but so is stewardship.

This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.

Parker left the place that he knew for the possibilities that he would not have had in the Texas of a generation ago.

Changing public opinion, of course, will be the work of a generation or maybe two, but kudos to Stewart for getting it started.

For Gerald Raymount, it made a man of him—which he is not who is of no service to his generation.

It was a gospel that had to be preached with tears and beseechings from one generation to another.

I watched SNL—the Eddie Murphy generation—and also SCTV with Rick Moranis.

And the generation born after the Second World War has come of age.

In the course of a generation he had become an established institution.

A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.