generation
代,代人,代的,代代相传
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- : the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- : the average span of years between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring, reckoned in accordance with various disciplines, as in human population studies, which typically cite a generational range as 20–35 years, and in the classification of Generations X, Y, and Z, which loosely frame periods of 15–20 years: Her photo layout shows the hairstyle trends among young men over the past four generations.
- : a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.Compare Beat Generation, Lost Generation.
- : a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.
- : a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.
- : a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor: a new generation of anticancer drugs;a third-generation phone.
- : the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.
- : the act or process of generating or bringing into being; production, manufacture, or procreation.
- : the state of being generated.
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Keep in mind that Gen Z is a tech-savvy audience that’s unlike other generations.
The generation or so after the passage of the Voting Rights, when the Electoral College never made a practical difference in presidential elections, was an exception rather than the rule.
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While the new iPhones are expected soon, Apple is proceeding with a new generation of its mobile operating software, iOS 14, due out Wednesday.
This is the lamp that nearly any person of any generation would like.
I watched SNL—the Eddie Murphy generation—and also SCTV with Rick Moranis.
A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.
Or will we simply see more senseless bloodshed and another generation of Palestinians defer their dreams of a homeland?
Changing public opinion, of course, will be the work of a generation or maybe two, but kudos to Stewart for getting it started.
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