generation

Noun
  1. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age (synset 108386333)
    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. Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent (synset 108385834)
    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. The normal time between successive generations (synset 115274447)
    "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
  4. A stage of technological development or innovation (synset 115316166)
    "the third generation of computers"
    is a type of: phase, stage - any distinct time period in a sequence of events
  5. A coming into being (synset 107338980)
    is a type of: beginning - the event consisting of the start of something
    same as: genesis
  6. The production of heat or electricity (synset 100923958)
    "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
    is a type of: production - (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
  7. The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production (synset 100851612)
    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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