Meaning

plural of generation

generation

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
  3. (US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Race, family; breed.
  4. (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.
  5. (Nigeria, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
  6. (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.
  7. (countable, uncountable) A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
  8. (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.
  9. (countable, uncountable) A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
  10. (countable, uncountable) A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
  11. (countable, uncountable) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
  12. (countable, uncountable) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.

Synonyms

Translations

Altersgenossen

Gleichaltrigen

Zeitgenossinnen

Gleichaltrige

Altersgenossinnen

γενεά

γενιά

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃənz/

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