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- UK [ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] / US
noun
Word forms "generation":
singular generation plural generations1)a) [countable] a group of people in society who are born and live around the same timeThe site was preserved as a monument for future generations.
People retiring today are wealthier than the previous generation.
b) a particular group existing at a particular timegeneration of:His work has been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists.
Generations of schoolchildren have sat at these desks.
2)a) [countable] all the members of a family who are of a similar age and whose parents are of a similar agegeneration of:My mother was the only one in her generation to go to university.
The novel is about several generations of a French family.
b) the number of years that usually pass between the birth of a person and the birth of that person's childrenWithin a generation, the family had lost all its wealth.
3) [countable] a group of products that were made at about the same time, intended as an improvement on those that came before thema new generation of mobile phones
4) [uncountable] the process of producing somethingcheap electricity generation
•the older/younger generation
— the people in society at a particular time who are old or youngNew technology need not be the preserve of the younger generation.
English dictionary. 2014.