generations

De titel werd overgenomen gedurende zeven generaties en werd in handen van negen personen.

Gedurende drie generaties ontwikkelden ze deze molens, als een grote draaiende en weven combinatie.

plural of generation

(countable, uncountable) The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
(countable, uncountable) The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
(US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Race, family; breed.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(Nigeria, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(countable, uncountable) A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(countable, uncountable) A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
(countable, uncountable) A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
(countable, uncountable) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
(countable, uncountable) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.