generation

Definition

  • noun: a group of people born and living during the same time
  • noun: a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor
  • synonyms: production, formation, progeny

Examples

  • ('US') The current 'generation' is changing the way things are done. = ('Brit') The current 'generation' are changing the way things are done.

  • first- and second-'generation' immigrants [=people who immigrated and their children]

  • The company claims to be developing the next 'generation' of portable computers.

Movie quotes

  • (..) does not stop at this proximity I can smell yourself Togo) said that I) (maintained finger (Ho Chi Alamsake know this? (developed by the teacher (Ho Chi in the third generation ... Yes You must know what is happening while Eloy finger not You know what the hardest part? door is clean holes (..)
    2008 Kung Fu Panda