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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   generation

   • IPA[ˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n]

   美式

   • n.
     all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively；the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own

   • noun: generation, plural noun: generations

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively one of his generation's finest songwriters 同義詞 crop, batch, wave, type, range
   • ▪ the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own the same families have lived here for generations 同義詞 ages, an age, years, eons, an eon, ... 更多a long time, an eternity, informaldonkey's years, yonks
   • ▪ a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent a third-generation Canadian
   • ▪ a single stage in the development of a type of product a new generation of rear-engined sports cars
   • 2. the production of something methods of electricity generation the generation of wealth 同義詞 creation, causing, causation, making, engendering, ... 更多spawning, production, initiation, origination, inception, occasioning, prompting, kindling, triggering, inspiration反義詞 destruction
   • ▪ the propagation of living organisms; procreation. 同義詞 procreation, reproduction, propagation, breeding, fathering, ... 更多siring, engendering, spawning, creation, literarybegetting