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Generation

Definitions: Generation

Generation

Noun

1. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.

2. Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

3. The normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade".

4. The act of propagating.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "generation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Generation

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Generation An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of programming languages. See First generation language -- Fifth generation language. (1995-06-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Aerospace

In any technical or technological development, as of a missile, jet engine, or the like, a stage or period that is marked by features or performances not marked, or existent, in a previous period of development or production, as in the first generation of rockets using liquid propellants. (references)

Bible

Generation Gen. 2:4, "These are the generations," means the "history." 5:1, "The book of the generations," means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, "The generations of Jacob" = the history of Jacob and his descendants. 7:1, "In this generation" = in this age. Ps. 49:19, "The generation of his fathers" = the dwelling of his fathers, i.e., the grave. Ps. 73:15, "The generation of thy children" = the contemporary race. Isa. 53:8, "Who shall declare his generation?" = His manner of life who shall declare? or rather = His race, posterity, shall be so numerous that no one shall be able to declare it. In Matt. 1:17, the word means a succession or series of persons from the same stock. Matt. 3:7, "Generation of vipers" = brood of vipers. 24:34, "This generation" = the persons then living contemporary with Christ. 1 Pet. 2:9, "A chosen generation" = a chosen people. The Hebrews seem to have reckoned time by the generation. In the time of Abraham a generation was an hundred years, thus: Gen. 15:16, "In the fourth generation" = in four hundred years (comp. verse 13 and Ex. 12:40). In Deut. 1:35 and 2:14 a generation is a period of thirty-eight years. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Electrical Engineering

The production of pairs of holes and free electrons by the excitation of electrons from the valence band to the conduction band. Source: European Union. (references)

Energy

The gross amount of electric energy produced less the electric energy consumed at a generating station for station use. (net). (references)
 The total amount of electric energy produced by a generating station as measured at the generator terminals. (gross). (references)

Food & Agriculture

All those individuals of an organism that are separated from a common parent or ancestor by an equal number of reproductive cycles. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Rolling without slipping. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

All the crystals of the same mineral species that appear to have crystallized at essentially the same time; e.g., if there are olivine phenocrysts in a groundmass containing olivine, there are said to be twogenerations of olivine. (references)

Statistics

Number of iterations between the application of the genetic algorithm. An epoch, (a block of learning cycles)is performed so that the present population of classifiers can be ranked. After an epoch has completed the classifiers are bred via a genetic algorithm to(hopefully)discover a better set of classifiers. After the GA is applied the new population starts another epoch of learning cycles. The entire process is repeated until the population performs to some standard. Source: European Union. (references)
 Refers to a group of persons born within a specified period of time, generally taken as a calendar year. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Generation

Synonyms: coevals (n), contemporaries (n), multiplication (n), propagation (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Generation

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Consanguinity

Family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood. race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.

Intelligence Wisdom

Prudent; (cautious); sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic, wise in one's generation; watchful; provident; (prepared); in advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon.

Mankind

Noun: man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.

Period

Noun: period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon.

Posterity

Child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.

Production

Spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.

Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen.

Reproduction

Generation; (production); multiplication.

Youth

Prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Generation

English words defined with "generation": Abiogenous, Accrementition, Allen Ginsberg, Alternation of generation, Amphigenesis, Archegonybaby boom, baby boomer, baby buster, backcross, beat, beat generation, beatnik, boomer, buster, buxomchubby, Colliquament, common peopleEE, electrical engineering, embonpoint, Engendrurefilial, find, first language, folkGasogen, Gemmule, Geneagenesis, generational, Genesial, Genesiolgy, Genial gods, Geniture, Ginsberghanded-down, heredity, Heterogamy, HeterogenistJack Kerouac, Jean-Louis Lebris de KerouacKerouacLazzaro Spallanzanimale, maternal language, Moon's age, mother tongue, mutual inductionOviparityPanspermist, Panspermy, parental, Pathogeny, Perigenesis, Phytogeny, Prolification, Propagable, propagate, Prothallus, Pudenda, Pudic, purebred, pyroelectricityrebellion, Redia, Republicanizesee, self-induction, Spallanzani, spontaneous generation, Sporosac, Stereoelectric, swing, SyngenesisTheogony, theory of inheritance, Traducianism, tralatitious, Tritozooidunbridgeable, unveiledVermination, Virginal generationwind generation, witnessX-ray tubeYevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Yevtushenkozaftig, Zeitgeist, zoftig. (references)
Specialty definitions using "generation": 3GL4GL64 bitA rule based approach to information systems development, abstract syntax tree, ABT-378, Act3, ADL, Algorithmic Test Case Generation, alpha bêta-accumulation, Antigens, CD40, applications programmer-analys, artificial life, Athlon, authorized person, avalanche photodiode, AVERAGE HYDRO, Average planar linear heat generation rate, azienda agraria ereditaria e indivisibileBALANCED SCHEDULE, BARRELS PER DAY EQUIVALENT, bit bashing, bit diddling, bit twiddling, Boiler Feedwater, breed selection, brown-out, BROWSE DATA PRODUCTC language, cardiac pacing, CA-Telon, Cerenkov radiation, certified seed of the second generation, CGI, chain code, Chushan-rishathaim, Cogeneration, colliery consumption, Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol, Compressed Air Storage, Computer Generation Incorporated, Constraint Handling In Prolog, CONTRACTS FOR DIFFERENCES, CONTROL AREA, cordless telephone-first generation, cordless telephone-second generation, cutting fluidDATA CENTER, DAY-AHEAD SCHEDULE, decay distance, Demand-Side Management, DG/L, DGL, Digital Research, Digital to Analog Converter, direct image film, Disease Transmission, Horizontal, Disease Transmission, Vertical, Distillate fuel oil, DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, DML, Dynamo processE-bomb, Electric Stimulation Therapy, Electric System, Electric System Loss, Electric Utility, Electrical System Energy Losses, electromagnetic bomb, electronic transducer, Eli Compiler Construction System, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH, evolution strategyfac-simile generation, Factor VIIIa, Fifth Generation Computer System, fifth generation language, first generation, first generation computer, first generation language, fitness proportionate reproduction, Forbears, fourth generation computer, fundatrixgear generation, Gene Amplification, gene tranfer via viral vectors, generating method, generating-substation-operator assistant, GENERATION COMPANY, GENERATION DISPATCH ANDCONTROL, generation of satellites, Generation time, generational replacement genetic algorithm, Genes, T-Cell Receptor, Genes, vif, genetic algorithm, genetic selection, geothermal energy. (references)
Etymologies containing "generation": AmphigenesisEmbryogonySecundo-geniture, Syngenesiateal. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Generation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (generation), German (generation, offspring).

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Modern Usage: Generation

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You're an impatient generation. (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt)

Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and no glass slipper. (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls. Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk.)

From mine it's a generation that's circles the globe and searches something we haven't tried before. (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge)

Lyrics

A generation lost in space ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean)

Among the younger generation ("War"; performing artist: Edwin Starr)

Clever

A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Engelbert with the Young Generation (1972)

The Generation Game (1971)

Generation (1969)

Target Generation (1969)

Sensation Generation (1969)

Song Titles

Younger Generation (performing artist: The Lovin' Spoonful)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Generation

DomainTitle

References

  • Electric Power Generation in Peru: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Clean Coal Technology for Power Generation in France: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Upgrading Equipment for Power Generation Facilities in Portugal: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Power Generation Upgrading Equipment in Russia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Wind Power Generation Equipment in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Transgenic Animals: Generation and Use (reference)

  • Bringing Up Boys: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Men (reference)

  • Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's (Thompson, Hunter S. Gonzo Papers, V. 2.) (reference)

  • The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (reference)

  • America Ablaze: Spreading National Revival Through America's Young Generation (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  • ITT Industries Night Mariner 150 Generation 2 Monocular Night Vision Viewer (reference)

  • Bomberman Generation (reference)

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation, Birth of the Federation (reference)

  • 1024MB Ecc Kit for Compaqproliant Dl380 Generation (reference)

  • 2048MB Ecc Kit for Compaqproliant Dl380 Generation 2 Ml3 (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Generation

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Generation

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NASA has selected TRW to build the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a successor to the ...Credit: NASA.

An image of the grand design spiral galaxy M100 obtained with the second generation Wide Field ...Credit: NASA.

Preparing Maryland Blue Crabs for the dinner table. Passing on the knowledge of the Chesapeake Bay from generation to generation.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Emptying a crab pot. Passing on knowledge of the bay from generation to generation.Credit: America's Coastlines.

A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151.Credit: Fisheries.

Graphic of 2nd generation GOES satellite in orbit.Credit: NOAA in Space.

Aircraft generation equipment mechanic.

Col. Hank Morrow, commander of the 149th Fighter Wing, Texas Air National Guard, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, wears the new Libelle anti-gravity flight-suit that should improve a pilot's ability to handle the latest generation of high-performance jet airc.

Tom Bennet discussing conservation farm plan with third generation dryland wheat farmer from Gilliam County, Oregon.Credit: Ron Nichols.

En rökfri generation! : Vinnande bidraget i Riksforeningens mot cancer affischtavling.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Generation

AuthorQuotation

Abraham Lincoln

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

Benjamin Disraeli

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Benjamin Disraeli.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Byron Dobell

Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners.

E. M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Joseph Joubert

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Statius

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Thomas Jefferson

One generation cannot bind another.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Generation

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

This may give one reason to ask, whether this might not be more properly called parental power? for whatever obligation nature and the right of generation lays on children, it must certainly bind them equal to both the concurrent causes of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

John F. Kennedy

1961

I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people of any other generation. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Generation

TitleAuthorQuote

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

It completelyrevolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years.

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Generation

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In FAD, several members of the same generation in a family are often affected. (references)

These studies may shed additional light on how HD is passed from generation to generation. (references)

Patterson, T.L., and Jeste, D.V. The potential impact of the baby-boom generation on substance abuse among elderly persons. (references)

Business

Nuclear electricity generation will remain state owned. (references)

China's first generation of WAP phones have good sales forecasts. (references)

Thus there is market potential in the power generation market sector. (references)

Children

Bangladesh

The Center also helps integrate residents back into society and provides vocational training, micro-credits, and employment generation opportunities. (references)

Ghana

In many instances, when a Trokosi woman dies, years if not decades after she has completed her service and resumed her life in the village, her family is expected to replace her with another young girl, thus continuing the association of the family to the shrine from generation to generation. (references)

Civil Liberties

United Arab Emirates

Many such families have lived in the country for more than one generation. (references)

Discrimination

Indonesia

However, guidelines adopted in the past 20 years also state that women's participation in the development process must not conflict with their role in improving family welfare and the education of the younger generation. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Consequently, thermal generation increased. (references)

Sri Lanka

The balance will be met by thermal power generation. (references)

Human Rights

Romania

Domestic human rights monitoring groups include the Romanian Helsinki Committee (APADOR-CH), the independent Romanian Society for Human Rights (SIRDO), the League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADO), the Romanian Institute for Human Rights, and several issue-specific groups such as the Young Generation of Roma and the Center for Crisis Intervention and Study, also a Romani NGO. (references)

Indigenous People

Tunisia

Some older Amazighs have retained their native language, but the younger generation has been assimilated into Tunisian culture through schooling and marriage. (references)

Minorities

Panama

On the other hand, second and third generation Chinese are seen as distinct from recent immigrants, and generally are accepted in society. (references)

Political Economy

HONG KONG

In September 2001, the government issued four Third Generation (3G) mobile services licenses. (references)

VENEZUELA

The exploitation of iron ore and hydropower generation in the Caroni river basin remain reserved for the state. (references)

Bangladesh

Foreign investment has increased significantly in the gas sector and in electrical power generation facilities. (references)

Trade

Singapore

Utilizing remote-controlled Overhead Bridge Cranes, which enable containers to be stacked up to nine-high, Pasir Panjang Terminal exemplifies the new generation of ports. (references)

Mexico

Mexico has entered a new era with the concessioning of sea and airports, railroads, satellite communications, power generation plants, and natural gas distribution systems. (references)

Romania

Priority projects supported by multilateral institutions are mainly related to infrastructure modernization in transportation, power generation, telecommunications, and environmental protection. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

Given the fact that "business" in a Western sense is something new to the current generation of Ukrainians, it is difficult to generalize about proper protocol and customs for doing business in Ukraine. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

The program also envisions a pilot income generation program for rescued workers that aims to prevent the recurrence of forced labor. (references)

Sri Lanka

Nonetheless, government workers in the transportation, medical, educational, power generation, financial, and port sectors have staged brief strikes and other work actions in the past few years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Generation

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Every generation has had their drugs of choice.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Generation

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829Standing at this point of time, looking back to that generation which has gone by and forward to that which is advancing, we may at once indulge in grateful exultation and in cheering hope.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929That system would not have survived from generation to generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969For every generation, there is a destiny.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974We are embarking here today on an era that presents challenges great as those any nation, or any generation, has ever faced.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981To establish those values, two centuries ago a bold generation of Americans risked their property, their position, and life itself.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation.

George Bush

1989-1993Now let me start with my generation, with the grandparents out there.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Because of a generation of bipartisan effort, we have cleaner air and water.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Generation

"Generation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Generation" is used about 4,914 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.98%4,9131,993
Noun (proper)0.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4,914N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Generation

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "generation".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
MolidN/ABiblical

Generation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Generation

CountryNameCountryName
China

Beijing Datang Power Generation Company Limited

USA

Digital Generation Systems, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Generation

Expressions using "generation": algorithmic Test Case Generation Alternate generation Alternation of generation beat generation certified seed of the second generation coming generation common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol computer Generation Incorporated deep generation Fifth Generation Computer System fifth generation language first generation first generation computer first generation language fourth generation computer fourth generation language future generation gas generation gear generation generation gap generation of satellites generation of single sentences generation x generation yet unborn graph generation language ip next generation last generation natural language generation Next generation data base management system plausible move generation rising generation second generation second generation computer second generation crop second generation language Second Generation Mobile Systems second generation of GM crops second generation weapons second Nth generation image spontaneous generation steam generation surface generation system generation the beat generation the rising generation the younger generation third generation third generation computer third generation language virginal generation waveform Generation Language wind generation young generation younger generation. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "generation": generation-defining, generation-gap, generation-oriented, generation-skipping.

Ending with "generation": fifth-generation, new-generation, next-generation, re-generation, second-generation, self-generation, third-generation, three-generation.

Containing "generation": second-generation-in-power.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Generation

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

advertising lead generation

34,950

generation x

597

generation

525

lead generation

494

generation liquid

483

star trek next generation

333

mortgage lead generation

227

the next generation

210

y generation

203

sale lead generation

199

sales lead generation

182

real estate lead generation

166

beat generation

162

generation of computer

125

power generation

116

generation ontario power

105

seventh generation

87

generation lead outsourcing sales

70

stolen generation

68

generation next realty

67
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Generation

Language Translations for "generation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

geslag (sex), generasie, stamboom, geslagregister, geslaglys. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

gjeneratë, prodhim (article, crop, fabrication, harvest, make, making, manufacture, milling, mintage, output, out-turn, produce, product, production, recovery, runout, turn out, yield), lindje (accouchement, birth, dawn, delivery, East, genesis, giving birth, labor, labour, nascence, nascency, nativity, Orient, origination, procreation, progeniture, rise), faqe (aspect, cheek, façade, face, flat, form, front, hillside, layer, page, side, surface), brez (band, belt, cincture, descent, girdle, remove, sash, scarf, streak). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نسل (breed, children, lineage, offspring, parentage, posterity, procreate, progeny, ravel, seed, spawn), ‏نشىء, ‏تكاثر (breed, increase, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn, swarm), ‏توليد, ‏تولد (engender), ‏ذرية (breed, increase, lineage, offspring, parentage, progeny, race, seed), ‏جيل (descent), ‏التوليد (interpolation). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

размножаване (breeding, increase, multiplication, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning), отделяне (breakaway, detachment, disconnection, disconnexion, disengagement, disseverance, divorcement, emanation, emission, evolution, excretion, exudation, isolation, partition, release, scission, secession, secretion, separation, severance), зараждане (nascency), произвеждане (fabrication, manufacture, production, promoting, promotion), пораждане (origination), потомство (brood, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, spawn), поколение (descent, offspring). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(contemporaries, lifetime), (age, dynasty, era, geological era, period, replace, substitute), 世代, 一代 , (age, era, life, lifetime, world). (various references)

   

Czech

  

generace. (various references)

   

Danish

  

generation (epoch). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

generatie (epoch), geslacht (clan, ethnic group, genus, house, race, sex, tribe). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

generacio. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

mansaldur, ættarlið. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sukupolvi. (various references)

   

French

  

génération. (various references)

   

German

  

Generation (epoch, offspring), erzeugung (creation, engenderment, machine output, manufacture, manufacturing, output, performance on production, procreation, product, production, productive output, work output), geschlecht (clan, ethnic group, family, gender, house, lineage, organ, race, sex, tribe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γενιά, γενεά (descent, phylum, race). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"ור (age, epoch, era). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nemzedék, generáció. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

generasi, keturunan (extraction, herediraryty, offspring), bangkitan (production), angkatan (age group, branch of, lift). (various references)

   

Italian

  

generazione (begetting, epoch, offspring, procreation, spawning). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(age, charge, cost, materials, price, society, substitution, world). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せ い (the age, the world), ジェネレーション , (age, more than, over, society, world), はつで". (various references)

   

Korean 

  

발생 (Occurrence, Origination). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheeloghe (old age, posterity), gientyn (beget, begetting, breeding, conceive, conceiving, conception, engender, evolve, father, form, generate, procreate, produce, production, progeniture), giennaghtyn (beget, develop, developing, generate, genesis, procreate). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

generasjon, utvikling (development), slektsledd. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

generashon. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enerationgay

   

Polish

  

generacja. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

geração (breed, conception, genesis, house, procreation, race, seed, spawn). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

generare (engendering), generaţie (age, descent, remove), producere (bearing, production), oameni ai aceleiaşi epoci. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

генерация (oscillation). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ginealach (offspring), linn (age, an age, century; race, offspring), l (brood, progeny). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

generacija, stvaranje (creation, origination, procreation, reproduction), pokolenje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

generación (brood, epoch). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tidsålder (aeon, age), släktled, mansålder (age of manhood), alstring (production, spawning). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การแพร่พันธุ์, ยุค (era), คนรุ่นราวคราวเ"ียวกัน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oluşturma (constitution, formation), nesil (birth, breed, descent, extraction, flesh and blood, issue, lineage, loins, parentage, posterity, race, stock, strain), kuşak (belt, binder, cincture, cummerbund, girdle, loins, progeny, sash, swathe, waistband, zone), jenerasyon, dünyaya getirme, üretme (breeding, culture, fabrication, procreation, producing, production, working), üretim (manufacture, output, outturn, procurement, production, turnout). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

nesil (descendants, posterity). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розмноження (breeding, procreation, propagation, reproduction), генерація, потомство (posterity, progeny, young ones), покоління (breed, brood, tribe), період часу (time). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự sinh ra, sự phát sinh ra thế hệ. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

to (roof), cenhedlaeth. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Generation

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

genea, genesis. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

admissura, aequalem, aequales, aequali, aequalia, aequalis, aetas, aetate, aetatem, aetates, aetatis, aevi, aevo, aevum, ætas, evi, hereditas, hereditate, hereditatem, hereditates, hereditati, hereditatibus, hereditatis, procreationem, saecularia, saecularibus. (various references)

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