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English noun: generation | |||
| 1. | generation (group) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | ||
| Synonyms | coevals, contemporaries | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | people | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | peer group, youth culture | ||
| 2. | generation (group) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | biological group | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | baby boom, baby-boom generation, gen X, generation X, posterity | ||
| 3. | generation (time) the normal time between successive generations | ||
| Samples | They had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 4. | generation (time) a stage of technological development or innovation | ||
| Samples | The third generation of computers. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | phase, stage | ||
| 5. | generation (event) a coming into being | ||
| Synonyms | genesis | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning | ||
| 6. | generation (act) the production of heat or electricity | ||
| Samples | Dams were built for the generation of electricity. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | production | ||
| 7. | generation (act) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | ||
| Synonyms | multiplication, propagation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | biogenesis, biogeny | ||
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