generation
- Top 1000
Sense 1
- noun
- A2
All the people in a family or in a country who were born at about the same time.
Each generation learns to use new technology in its own way.
My parents' generation rarely travelled abroad for a holiday.
The bakery has stayed in the same family for five generations.
A whole generation of players learned the game from him.
Common collocations: the younger generation · the older generation · from generation to generation · a new generation · future generations
Part of: Life events, Family, Relationships
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B2
The act of making something such as electricity, heat, money or new ideas.
Wind and water now cover half of our electricity generation.
The meeting was meant for the generation of fresh ideas.
Heat generation in the engine is measured by several sensors.
Common collocations: power generation · electricity generation · heat generation · income generation · the generation of ideas
Part of: Science and technology, Numbers and quantity