English Online Dictionary. What means generation? What does generation mean?
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: gen‧er‧a‧tion
Noun
generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
- 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.]
- This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
- Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
- All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker
- (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th–19th c.]
- 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. [from 17th c.]
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
- (geometry) 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.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- generate
Translations
Further reading
- “generation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “generation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- "generation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 140.
Anagrams
- neotragine, renegation
Danish
Etymology
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Noun
generation c (singular definite generationen, plural indefinite generationer)
- generation (organisms or devices born or designed at the same time)
Declension
Further reading
- “generation” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “generation” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin generatio.
Noun
generation f (plural generations)
- generation (procreation; begetting)
- generation (rank or degree in genealogy)
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English, French, Latin, or other?”)
Noun
generation c
- a generation
Declension
Derived terms
- generationsväxling
- ungdomsgeneration
Related terms
- generera
See also
- släktled
References
- generation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- generation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- generation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)