generation

Nouns

  • (n) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age coevals, contemporaries,
  • (n) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
  • (n) the normal time between successive generations
    • they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
  • (n) a stage of technological development or innovation
    • the third generation of computers
  • (n) a coming into being genesis,
  • (n) the production of heat or electricity
    • dams were built for the generation of electricity
  • (n) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production multiplication, propagation,

Synonyms

coevals contemporaries genesis multiplication propagation

Words of close approximity

generative
generational generation gap generation X