generation
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- noun
- /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/
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generación
- And now it's time for our generation to define a new social contract.
- a generation ago
- a generation later
- one generation
He says it's going to be your generation that takes the fight.
- He says it's going to be your generation that takes the fight.
- It's just going to be generations because people don't forget.
- And it's all the the generation after the baby boomers.
- So my favorite tweet was every generation needs a new revolution.
- And then in the space of one generation, all of that ended.
- Secondly, the millennial generation isn't good at budgeting.
- Yeah, because I'm first generation, British born black.
- We are the last generation who doesn't want free stuff.
- Yeah, I do think there's a generation that's lost its way.
- And you and you multiply that through generations like it just gets worse.
- I think it's Arab uprisings that this is part of a generations long transformation.
- We cannot be the generation that suddenly says that sounds hard.
- And then there's a whole nother generation born into it.
- Every generation must study in its turn.
- You know, that's two generations removed from from the world today.
- You know, my generation was a bit more fortunate than that.
Examples
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We are in a much better position today than any other generation to help the poor.
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On the day of the funeral, the traders in the Serapeum get ready for the biggest business opportunity in a generation.
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But now you know, your generation is so different than mine.
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And then in the space of one generation, all of that ended.
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We cannot be the generation that suddenly says that sounds hard.
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Every generation must study in its turn.
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Our generation is in trouble because my generation messed it up.
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And I think this generation doesn't realize things take time.
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Your poems about the wolves spoke to a generation of men who shared in your suffering.
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Every generation faces its own unique challenges as society evolves.
Compounds
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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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People born between the early 1960s and the late 1970s who come after the baby boomers
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A group of American writers and artists from the 1950s who reject social rules and choose free creative lives
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The idea that living things can appear from nonliving matter without parents is now known to be wrong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Generation originally meant 'a birth' from the Latin genus, so a generation as about 20–30 years is the span from when a group is born until many of them have children of their own. That's why we say 'a generation ago' to talk about the group before us.