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Generation

noun

All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age. Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries.

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. Synonym: genesis.

The production of heat or electricity.

The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production. Synonyms: multiplication, propagation.

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"Generation" Quotes from Famous Books

... things with a printer, and am to be to-morrow all day busy with Mr. Secretary about the same. I won't tell you now; but the Ministers reckon it will do abundance of good, and open the eyes of the nation, who are half bewitched against a peace. Few of this generation can remember anything but war and taxes, and they think it is as it should be; whereas 'tis certain we are the most undone people in Europe, as I am afraid I shall make appear beyond all contradiction. But I forgot; I won't tell you what I will ...

— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift

... upon the window of her own room and having rubbed clear a spot, looked below, much as if she suspected ghosts could leave tracks in the snow. In her behalf it is only fair to say that the girls of that generation were so shut in as far as regarded society or knowledge of men that they let their imaginations question and wander in a manner difficult now to conceive. At certain ages the two sexes are very much interested in each other, and if this interest is not satisfied objectively, ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... in starting the car going. He knew considerable about mechanics, as most boys of the present generation do, since automobiles have become so very common. Running it out of the garage Hugh bade Horatio "hop aboard," which that worthy ...

— The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path • Donald Ferguson

... rovers, but it might have been expected that the Maryland shores of the Chesapeake bay would be free from their harassings. The province, however, it seems was not to enjoy such good fortune, for in the printed annals of her life appears the name of one man, who has been handed down from generation to generation as a "pirate," a "rebel" and an "ungrateful villain," and other equally complimentary epithets have been applied to him. The original historians of Maryland based their ideas about him upon some of the statements made by those ...

— Captain Richard Ingle - The Maryland • Edward Ingle

... Novel in modern education; and conversely, to reprimand the older, narrow notion that the habit means self-indulgence and a waste of time. Nor can we close our eyes to the tyrannous domination of fiction to-day, for good or bad. It has worn seven-league boots of progress the past generation. So early as 1862, Sainte-Beuve declared in conversation: "Everything is being gradually merged into the novel. There is such a vast scope and the form lends itself to everything." Prophetic words, more than fulfilled since they ...

— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

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