generation
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- noun
- /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/
- I can think of no higher purpose than helping the next generation of Americans grow and prosper.
- future generations
- next generation
- younger generation
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Watch on YouTubeAnd now it's our generation's turn to do great things.
- And now it's our generation's turn to do great things.
- So he gets a younger generation as each decade goes by.
- You are a light not only for your generation, but for the whole world.
- That's what we, we, our entire generation is the victim of this trend.
- It's like every generation finds the Blues.
- It's it's a whole generation of people who think that.
- You know, the younger generation always wants to take over, OK?
- They are delighted to screw future generations without a single pause.
- Like he, this generation of boys knows me.
Examples
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You know, for our generation, Mars is the new world.
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Our generation is hopeless, man.
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You are a light not only for your generation, but for the whole world.
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Does every generation feel like it's failed the next?
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Each generation must look after the generation that comes after it.
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And now it's our generation's turn to do great things.
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It is time for a new generation of leadership in America.
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I am a self-appointed historian of those of my generation who are still living.
Academic text (2011) -
And yet restoring opportunities for future generations requires making sacrifices in the present.
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Many experts agree that education is crucial for the new generation of students entering the workforce.
Synonyms
A group of people born and living around the same time
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.6
People born between the early 1960s and the late 1970s who come after the baby boomers
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People in the United States born between 1946 and 1964 when birth rates rose after World War II
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A group of American writers and artists from the 1950s who reject social rules and choose free creative lives
- Specialized
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9.8
The idea that living things can appear from nonliving matter without parents is now known to be wrong
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Etymology
Generation comes from the Latin words genus and generare, which mean 'birth' and 'kind'. That is why a generation can mean all the people born around the same time—a group with a shared 'birth' time.