generation

Noun
  1. is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
    subtypes:
    • youth culture - young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture
    • peer group - contemporaries of the same status
    same as: coevals, contemporaries
  2. is a type of: biological group - a group of plants or animals
    subtypes:
    • posterity - all future generations
    • baby boom, baby-boom generation - the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
    • gen x, generation x - the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
  3. is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
  4. is a type of: phase, stage - any distinct time period in a sequence of events
  5. is a type of: beginning - the event consisting of the start of something
    same as: genesis
  6. is a type of: production - (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
  7. is a type of: breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction - the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
    subtypes: biogenesis, biogeny - the production of living organisms from other living organisms
    same as: multiplication, propagation

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