generation

generation
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. age, descent, lifetime; procreating, breeding, begetting. See production, posterity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The act of producing]
Syn. engendering, formation, creation; see production 1 .
2. [The act of producing offspring]
Syn. procreation, propagation, reproduction, breeding, bearing, spawning, bringing forth, multiplying, fructifying.
Ant. perishing, dying out, becoming extinct.
3. [One cycle in the succession of parents and children]
Syn. age, crop, rank, contemporaries, peers, coevals, peer group, age group.
4. [The time required for a generation, sense 3]
Syn. span, 20 to 30 years, period; see age 3 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. creation production, formation, invention, inception, fashioning, making, initiation, origination, spawning, founding, genesis.
2. age period, era, epoch, eon, day, span.

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