Generation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GENERATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor
• all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively
• the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, in which children grow up, become adults, and have children of their own
• a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent
• a group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity
• a single stage in the development of a type of product or technology
• the production or creation of something
• the propagation of living organisms; procreation.
• The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
• Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
• That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
• A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
• Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
• The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
• The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
• all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
• group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
• the normal time between successive generations
• a stage of technological development or innovation
• a coming into being
• the production of heat or electricity
• the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor; a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously; a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period; a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type

Words related to GENERATION

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Words that contain GENERATION

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How to use GENERATION in a sentence

• Species in Animals not distinguished by Generation.
• Robert was advised to marry, in order to secure, if possible, the first male heir of the next generation, since the young earl himself was still a bachelor.
• The young men of this generation seem to prefer to avoid public disturbances.
• But it was reserved for Douglass, by virtue of his marvellous gift of oratory, to become pre-eminently the personal representative of his people for a generation.
• It is the most important contribution made during the present generation in England to the establishment of a sound religious philosophy, and to the advance of religious truth.
• His was the wisest and deepest spirit among the English poets of his generation, though hardly the most poetic.
• The novelist, having little character to lose, and having few readers among serious people, took without scruple liberties which in our generation seem almost incredible.
• For a generation at least there has not been a situation so promising for the ultimate public welfare as that of to-day.
• People a generation ago had eager sympathy with Hungary, with Italy, with Poland, because they were deeply impressed by the doctrine of nationalities.
• His family had lived in the fortress from generation to generation ever since the time of the conquest.
• If such doings as these are allowed in the Holy City, another generation there will be no Christians left on earth.
• And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.
• A grand idea of nationality is being deeply rooted in the hearts of the present generation.
• From the point of his generation, his action was just and legal.
• Lowell speaks, he hits the mark with a felicity that is almost his own in this generation.
• To this end, from generation to generation, these early Pepins steadily moved.
• He was a remnant of a past generation, and the introduction of steam shocked his faculties beyond recovery.
• I shall have occasion to mention this land again, now and then, as I go along, for it influenced our life in one way or another during more than a generation.
• There were a few old gentlemen wandering about the streets who were survivors of the generation which just followed the Revolutionary War, among them Dr.
• One of these motives was the admiration of great men which Goethe shared with the generation to which he belonged.
• It is not to be inferred that any large proportion of the new generation have consciously or definitely followed out the chain of reasoning which we have indicated.
• The present generation is reaping a full reward of this gift to the next.
• Professors have written of the mental habits of women as though they accumulated generation by generation upon women, and passed over their sons.
• Thirty years have elapsed, and a new generation has arisen, to whom the horrors of the revolution live only in the page of history.
• And that, as he says, the beginning of the generation of things which are generated is from Fire, he understands somewhat in this fashion.
• Here men bought and sold by the thousand head, in his day and generation, and he was a part of that epoch.
• No other generation has been called to such grand things, and to such crowded, glorious living.
• For a generation or two before the war, the Transvaalers had been encroaching upon Bechuanaland.
• In 688, that is, in a little more than a generation from the death of Mohammed, the Moslems undertook the siege of Constantinople.

Similar words containing GENERA without suffix tion

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