generation

gen|er|a|tion [ ,dʒenə`reıʃn ] noun ***

1. ) count 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 an immigrant family.

a ) 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.

2. ) count 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.

a ) generation of a particular group existing at a particular time:

His work has been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists.

Generations of schoolchildren have sat at these desks.

b ) 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.

3. ) count 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 cellphones

4. ) uncount the process of producing something:

cheap electricity generation

╾ gen|er|a|tion|al adjective:

generational differences