generation
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
Other meanings
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
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.
Related words
- new-generation
- next-generation
- once-in-a-generation
- beat generation
- biogeneration
- cogeneration
- congeneration
- cybergeneration
- electrogeneration
- first-generation
- from generation to generation
- generational
Word history
From Latin "generātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “generation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.