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generation
Overview of noun generation
The noun generation has 7 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (8) coevals, contemporaries, generation -- (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)
2. (7) generation -- (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)
3. (6) generation -- (the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade")
4. generation -- (a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers")
5. genesis, generation -- (a coming into being)
6. generation -- (the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity")
7. generation, multiplication, propagation -- (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun generation
7 senses of generation
Sense 1
coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> people
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
generation
=> biological group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
generation
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
generation
=> phase, stage
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
genesis, generation
=> beginning
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
generation
=> production
=> industry, manufacture
=> commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
=> commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
=> transaction, dealing, dealings
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
generation, multiplication, propagation
=> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun generation
3 of 7 senses of generation
Sense 1
coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> youth culture
=> peer group
Sense 2
generation
=> posterity
=> baby boom, baby-boom generation
=> generation X, gen X
Sense 7
generation, multiplication, propagation
=> biogenesis, biogeny
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun generation
7 senses of generation
Sense 1
coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> people
Sense 2
generation
=> biological group
Sense 3
generation
=> time period, period of time, period
Sense 4
generation
=> phase, stage
Sense 5
genesis, generation
=> beginning
Sense 6
generation
=> production
Sense 7
generation, multiplication, propagation
=> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
Antonyms of noun generation
Member Holonyms of noun generation
Substance Holonyms of noun generation
Part Holonyms of noun generation
Member Meronyms of noun generation
Substance Meronyms of noun generation
Part Meronyms of noun generation
Meronyms of noun generation
Holonyms of noun generation
Attributes of noun generation
Derived Forms of noun generation
5 of 7 senses of generation
Sense 2
generation
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#4
=> beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
Sense 4
generation
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#1
=> generate, bring forth
Sense 5
genesis, generation
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#1
=> generate, bring forth
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#4
=> beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
Sense 6
generation
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#2
=> render, yield, return, give, generate
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#3
=> generate
Sense 7
generation, multiplication, propagation
RELATED TO>(verb) generate#4
=> beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
Domain of noun generation
Domain Terms of noun generation
Familiarity of noun generation
generation used as a noun is common (polysemy count =7)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun generation
7 senses of generation
Sense 1
coevals, contemporaries, generation
> people
=> peoples
=> age group, age bracket, cohort
=> ancients
=> baffled
=> blind
=> blood
=> brave
=> timid, cautious
=> business people, businesspeople
=> damned
=> dead
=> living
=> deaf
=> defeated, discomfited
=> disabled, handicapped
=> doomed, lost
=> enemy
=> episcopacy, episcopate
=> folk, folks, common people
=> free, free people
=> homebound
=> initiate, enlightened
=> uninitiate
=> mentally retarded, retarded
=> network army
=> nationality
=> peanut gallery
=> pocket
=> retreated
=> sick
=> tradespeople
=> wounded, maimed
=> migration
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> nation, land, country
=> poor people, poor
=> rich people, rich
=> populace, public, world
=> population
=> community
=> coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> lobby
=> clientele, patronage, business
=> rank and file
=> smart money
=> unconfessed
=> unemployed people, unemployed
=> womankind
=> chosen people
Sense 2
generation
> biological group
=> genotype
=> clade
=> taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon
=> animal group
=> division
=> generation
=> descendants, posterity
Sense 3
generation
> time period, period of time, period
=> trial period, test period
=> time frame
=> hours
=> downtime
=> uptime
=> work time
=> time off
=> bout
=> hospitalization
=> travel time
=> times
=> time
=> elapsed time
=> duration, continuance
=> week, calendar week
=> midweek
=> field day
=> life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
=> life
=> life
=> millennium, millenary
=> bimillennium, bimillenary
=> occupation
=> past
=> shelf life
=> puerperium
=> lactation
=> time of life
=> calendar day, civil day
=> festival
=> day, daytime, daylight
=> morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
=> night, nighttime, dark
=> night
=> night
=> night
=> eve
=> evening
=> week, hebdomad
=> fortnight, two weeks
=> weekend
=> Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
=> year
=> school, schooltime, school day
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> year
=> semester
=> bimester
=> Olympiad
=> lustrum
=> decade, decennary, decennium
=> century
=> quadrennium
=> quinquennium
=> half-century
=> quarter-century
=> quarter
=> phase of the moon
=> day
=> calendar month, month
=> mid-January
=> mid-February
=> mid-March
=> mid-April
=> mid-May
=> mid-June
=> mid-July
=> mid-August
=> mid-September
=> mid-October
=> mid-November
=> mid-December
=> time limit
=> term
=> trimester
=> hour
=> silly season
=> Golden Age
=> silver age
=> bronze age
HAS INSTANCE=> Bronze Age
=> iron age
HAS INSTANCE=> Iron Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Eolithic Age, Eolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Lower Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Middle Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Upper Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
=> great year, Platonic year
=> regulation time
=> overtime, extra time
=> season, time of year
=> dog days, canicule, canicular days
=> midwinter
=> season
=> season
=> long time, age, years
=> long run, long haul
=> drought, drouth
=> era, epoch
=> generation
=> prehistory, prehistoric culture
=> reign
=> run
=> youth, early days
=> dawn
=> evening
=> time
=> sleep, nap
=> lease, term of a contract
=> half life, half-life
=> tide, lunar time period
=> phase, stage
=> multistage
=> watch
=> peacetime
=> wartime
=> enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
=> honeymoon
=> indiction
=> prohibition, prohibition era
=> incubation period
=> rainy day
=> novitiate, noviciate
=> flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
=> running time
=> period, historic period, historical period
=> clotting time
=> air alert
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Schism
=> question time
=> real time
=> real time
=> study hall
=> usance
=> window
Sense 4
generation
> phase, stage
=> diakinesis
=> diplotene
=> leptotene
=> pachytene
=> phase of cell division
=> zygotene
=> anal stage, anal phase
=> genital stage, genital phase
=> latency stage, latency phase, latency period
=> oral stage, oral phase
=> phallic stage, phallic phase
=> chapter
=> incubation
=> fertile period, fertile phase
=> menstrual phase
=> musth
=> secretory phase, luteal phase
=> generation
=> apogee, culmination
=> seedtime
=> safe period
Sense 5
genesis, generation
> beginning
=> casus belli
=> emergence, egress, issue
=> origin, origination, inception
=> genesis, generation
=> ground floor
=> emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> start
=> creation, conception
Sense 6
generation
> production
=> mass production
=> overproduction, overrun
=> underproduction
=> output, yield
=> capacity
=> breeding
=> brewing
=> cultivation
=> generation
=> mining, excavation
=> quarrying
=> boring, drilling, oil production
=> sericulture
Sense 7
generation, multiplication, propagation
> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
=> miscegenation, crossbreeding, interbreeding
=> generation, multiplication, propagation
Meronyms of noun generation
7 senses of generation
Sense 1
coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> people
HAS MEMBER: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Sense 6
generation
=> production
=> industry, manufacture
=> commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
HAS PART: business activity, commercial activity
=> commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
HAS PART: transportation, shipping, transport
Holonyms of noun generation
Grep of noun generation
baby-boom generation
beat generation
degeneration
generation
generation gap
generation x
hepatolenticular degeneration
macular degeneration
regeneration
spontaneous generation
wind generation
Grep of adj generation
generational
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