- coevals, contemporaries, generation - all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
--1 is a kind of people
--1 has particulars: youth culture; peer group - generation - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
--2 is a kind of biological group
--2 has particulars:posterity; baby boom, baby-boom generation; generation X, gen X Derived form: verb generate4 - generation - the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
--3 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
- generation - a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers"
--4 is a kind of phase, stage
Derived form: verb generate1 - genesis, generation - a coming into being
--5 is a kind of beginning
Derived forms: verb generate1, verb generate4 - generation - the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
--6 is a kind of production
Derived forms: verb generate2, verb generate3 - generation, multiplication, propagation - the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
--7 is a kind of reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
--7 has particulars: biogenesis, biogenyDerived form: verb generate4 - generation - a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers"