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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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... have, until the present generation, rarely been sung by poet, or chronicled by sage. They have wanted their sacer vates, having been too solid to rise to the top by themselves, and not having been largely gifted with the talent of catching hold of, and holding on tight to, whatever good things happened to be going—the foundation ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

... to the obsolescent generation that believed it a husband's duty to support his wife by his own labor. The thought of her sister supporting a worthless husband by her own toil was odious. The first task was to get Jake to work. It was only natural that she should think of her ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... recognition of genius. Good work is commoner than it used to be, but the best is as rare as ever. All the more gladly, therefore, do we welcome in "Maelcho" a piece of work of the first order, which we do not hesitate to describe as one of the most remarkable literary achievements of this generation. Miss Lawless is possessed of the very essence of ...

— The Wallypug in London • G. E. Farrow

... its literature vanished so completely that even names, once so familiar before 1848, were entirely forgotten; ideas which were then current—the stock ideas of the Socialists before 1848—were so wiped out as to be taken, later on, by our generation, for new discoveries. ...

— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... enough problems to deal with in our work without having to take up the irksome question of self-support. Yet at the present time, when every strenuous effort is being made to evangelize the world in this generation, any plan which can help forward such a movement at once assumes an aspect of vital importance in our eyes. Let it not be presumed that self-support is to be recommended as possible to every medical missionary. On the contrary, ...

— Notable Women Of Modern China • Margaret E. Burton

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