generation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- age noun The length of time someone or something has existed, usually counted in years.
- generation noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
Senses
generation is used for these senses in English:
- age (countable, uncommon, possibly, dated) A generation.
- generation 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. [from 14th c.]
age — full definition
- noun The length of time someone or something has existed, usually counted in years.
- noun A particular period in history, especially one with distinct characteristics.
- noun A long, often exaggerated, period of time.
- verb To grow older, or to show signs of growing older.
generation — full definition
- noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
- noun One step in a family's line of descent, roughly the time it takes children to grow up and have their own.
- noun The act or process of producing or bringing something into being.
- noun A particular stage in the development of a technology or product line.