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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

... would yet make an effort to give them up, if he fancied that to yield a little from them was needful to the comfort of others. He would give up the corner by the fire in which he Las sat through the life of a generation: he would resign to another the peg on which his hat has hung through that long time. Still, all this would cost a painful effort; and one need hardly repeat the common-place, that if people intend ever to get married, it is expedient that they should do so before they have settled ...

— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd

... have scarcely ever done so; men of imaginative genius, we might say, almost never. With the one exception of the noble Surrey, we cannot, at this moment, point out a representative in the male line, even so far down as the third generation, of any English poet; and we believe the case is the same in France. The blood of beings of that order can seldom be traced far down, even in the female line. With the exception of Surrey and Spenser, we are not ...

— Books and Authors - Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches • Anonymous

... what I sought her for. Then she came to my help to beguile what I thought was an interval of waiting for the serious task of life. I wrote what I thought was wanted. I sent it forth as my way of trying what service I could do in my generation. But now, when I call it my profession, when I think avowedly, what am I to get by it?—Faugh! the Muse is disgusted; and when I go to church, I hang my head at "Lay not up to yourselves ...

— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Protean nature which never seems to have been adequately recognized in England, yet in a singularly baffling character-composition it is one of the fundamental elements. The view of Prussian monarchy, inherited from one Hohenzollern to another for generation after generation, that the race of people to which he belonged (with any other race he could include by conquest in it) has been handed over by Heaven for all eternity to his family, naturally predisposes him to take a religious, a patriarchal, one might say an ...

— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw

... for me, doctor," said the skipper, with a grim smile and a twinkle in his eye. "The boys of this here generation seem to grow up pretty sharp. But he's quite right. They pretty well caught a weasel ...

— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

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