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UK [ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun
Word forms "generation":
singular generation plural generations
1)
a) [countable] a group of people in society who are born and live around the same time

The 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 time
generation 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 age

My mother was the only one in her generation to go to university.

generation of:

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 children

Within 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 them

a new generation of mobile phones

4) [uncountable] the process of producing something

cheap electricity generation

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the older/younger generation — the people in society at a particular time who are old or young

New technology need not be the preserve of the younger generation.


English dictionary. 2014.

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