the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
the average span of years between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring, reckoned in accordance with various disciplines, as in human population studies, which typically cite a generational range as 20–35 years, and in the classification of Generations X, Y, and Z, which loosely frame periods of 15–20 years: Her photo layout shows the hairstyle trends among young men over the past four generations.
a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.Compare Beat Generation, Lost Generation.
a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.
a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.
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): a new generation of anticancer drugs;a third-generation phone.
the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.
the act or process of generating; procreation.
the state of being generated.
production by natural or artificial processes; evolution, as of heat or sound.
Biology.
one complete life cycle.
one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase: the gametophyte generation.
Mathematics. the production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure.
Physics. one of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction.
(in duplicating processes, as photocopying, film, etc.) the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work.
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Origin of generation
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English generacioun, from Middle French, from Latin generātiōn- (stem of generātiō ); see generate, -ion
historical usage of generation
Generation is from Anglo-French and Old French generacioun (with many spelling variants) “line of descent; body of individuals born and alive at about the same time,” senses that first occur in the Vulgate (the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century). The French noun comes from Latin generātiō (stem generation- ), which in classical Latin means only “act of procreating, procreation.” Generātiō is a derivative of generāre “to beget, father, produce, generate.” Generāre in turn comes from genus (stem gener- ) “race, people, nation, class, kind,” from the Proto-Indo-European root gen-, gon-, gnē-, gnō- (with still other variants) “to beget, give birth.” Further Latin examples include gēns (stem gent- ) “family, race, nation, people” and nātiō (from gnātiō ) “birth of a child, issue; race, nation.” Gentēs, the plural of gēns, translates Hebrew goyim “nations” in the Vulgate. Gēns forms the Latin adjective gentīlis “belonging to the same family, race, or nation.” English gentile comes from the Vulgate usage of gentīlis “any or all of the non-Jewish nations” and later “heathen, pagan.” Proto-Indo-European gen-, gon- yields Greek génos “race, descent, descendant, child” and génesis “origin, birth.” The naming of a generation of people characterized collectively by shared ideas, experiences, etc., dates from the 1920s, specifically, the automobile generation and the Lost Generation.
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Keep in mind that Gen Z is a tech-savvy audience that’s unlike other generations.
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The generation or so after the passage of the Voting Rights, when the Electoral College never made a practical difference in presidential elections, was an exception rather than the rule.
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While the new iPhones are expected soon, Apple is proceeding with a new generation of its mobile operating software, iOS 14, due out Wednesday.
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This is the lamp that nearly any person of any generation would like.
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I watched SNL—the Eddie Murphy generation—and also SCTV with Rick Moranis.
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A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
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This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.
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Changing public opinion, of course, will be the work of a generation or maybe two, but kudos to Stewart for getting it started.
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Parker left the place that he knew for the possibilities that he would not have had in the Texas of a generation ago.
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The cells of its own generation that were crowded in the other direction made part of an annual layer of bark.
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Like the God whom it hymns, it has been "for generation after generation" an asylum.
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She was old, of a past generation; the young women belonged to the present.
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We reply, that it is the receptacle, and in a manner the nurse, of all generation.
Timaeus|Plato
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation following.
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British Dictionary definitions for generation
generation
/ (ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən) /
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
the normal or average time between two such generations of a species: about 35 years for humans
a phase or form in the life cycle of a plant or animal characterized by a particular type of reproductionthe gametophyte generation
all the people of approximately the same age, esp when considered as sharing certain attitudes, etc
production of electricity, heat, etc
physicsa set of nuclei formed directly from a preceding set in a chain reaction
(modifier, in combination)
belonging to a generation specified as having been born in or as having parents, grandparents, etc, born in a given countrya third-generation American
belonging to a specified stage of development in manufacture, usually implying improvementa second-generation computer
Which Generation Are You From?Each of us are defined by the time in which we live. We're all subject to the major events and technological advances defining our times. Some of us are old, and some of us are younger. Our influences are different, but one thing, however, remains unchanged: We're all bound together in a web of intermingling cultural generations.
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