See Also: F-1 generation(medicine)
generation(dictionary)
Generation(money)
generation gap(dictionary)
generation(dictionary)
f-2 generation(medicine)
first generation(dictionary)
Generation X(dictionary)
Generation Y(dictionary)
Generation(medicine)

generation (oh)



[C also + plural verb British English] all people of about the same age
::Like most of my generation, I had never known a war.
::In my generation the divorce rate is very high.
::the need to preserve the planet for future generations
generation of
::the post-war generation of writers
the younger/older generation
(=the younger or older people in society)
::The younger generation don't know what hard work is.
::The story has been handed down from generation to generation .
[C] all the members of a family of about the same age
::Friction is common when three generations live together.
first-generation/second-generation etc
(=being a member of the first, second etc generation to live or be born in a country)
::first-generation immigrants
::a third-generation American
[C] the average period of time between the birth of a person and the birth of that person's children
for generations
::Some families have lived here for generations.
::The country's attitude toward government is harsher than it was a generation ago.
[C] a group of things that were developed from something else, or from which better things were developed
generation of
::the new generation of mobile phones
::the first generation of nuclear power stations
first-generation/second-generation etc
::second-generation computers
[U] the process of producing something or making something happen
-synonym production production generation of
::the generation of electricity