Editing Generation

[[image:Generation 1717 English Dictionary.JPG|thumb|250px|Generation in the 1717 English Dictionary]]
* generation used 107 times.
* generations used 118 times.
* First Reference: Genesis 7:1
* Last Reference: 1 Peter 2:9

==English==

===Etymology===
[[image:Generation OED.JPG|thumb|250px|Generation in the Oxford English Dictionary]]

From [[Anglo-Norman]]

''[[generacioun]]'', [[Middle French]] ''[[generacion]]'', and their source, [[Latin]] ''[[generātiō]]'', from ''[[generāre]]'', present active infinitive of ''[[generō]]'' ‎(“to beget, generate”). Compare ''[[generate]]''.

===Pronunciation===
* /ˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

===Noun===
generation ‎(''plural'' [[generations]])

# The fact of [[creating]] something, or bringing something into being; [[production]], [[creation]]. [from 14th c.]
# The act of creating a living creature or [[organism]]; [[procreation]]. [from 14th c.]
# (now US regional) [[race|Race]], [[family]]; [[breed]]. [from 14th c.]
# A single step or stage in the [[succession]] of natural descent; a [[rank]] or [[degree]] in [[genealogy]], the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]
#: This is the book of the '''generations''' of Adam - Genesis 5:1
#: Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven '''generations''' - Baruch 6:3
#: All '''generations''' and ages of the Christian church - [[w:Richard Hooker|Richard Hooker]]
# ''[[obsolete]]'' [[descendants|Descendants]], [[progeny]]; [[offspring]]. [15th-19th c.]
# The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
# A set stage in the development of [[computing]] or of a specific [[technology]].
# (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the '''generation''' of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
# A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
#: ''Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the '''generation''' known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.''
# A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
#: ''People sometimes dispute which '''generation''' of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.''

====Derived terms====
* [[first-generation]]
* [[generationer]]
* [[second-generation]]

====Related terms====
* [[generation gap]]
* [[generation loss]]

====Related terms====
* [[generate]]

====External links====

===Anagrams===
* [[renegation#English|renegation]]

[[Category:en:Family]]

====Related terms====
* [[generera]]
* [[generationsväxling]]
* [[ungdomsgeneration]]

==Webster's 1828==
'''Generation'''
:'''GENERA'TION''', noun The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.

:'''1.''' Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.

:'''2.''' A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation [[Genesis 15:16]].

:'''3.''' The people of the same period, or living at the same time.

::O faithless and perverse generation [[Luke 9:41]].

:'''4.''' Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.

::This is the book of the generations of Adam. [[Genesis 5:1]].

:'''5.''' A family; a race.

:'''6.''' Progeny; offspring.

==Smith's Bible Dictionary==
'''Generation'''
:In the long-lived patriarchal age a generation seems to have been computed at 100 years, (Genesis 15:16) comp. Genesis 15:13 and Ecclesiastes 12:40 But subsequently the reckoning was the same which has been adopted by modern civilized nations, viz. from thirty to forty years (Job 42:16) (Generation is also used to signify the men of an age or time, as contemporaries, (Genesis 6:9; Isaiah 53:8) posterity , especially in legal formul', (Leviticus 3:17) etc.; fathers, or ancestors. (Psalms 49:19)

==Easton's Bible Dictionary==
'''Generation'''
[[Genesis 2:4]], "These are the generations," means the "history." 5:1, "The book of the generations," means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, "The generations of Jacob" = the history of Jacob and his descendants. 7:1, "In this generation" = in this age. Psalms 49:19, "The generation of his fathers" = the dwelling of his fathers, i.e., the grave. Psalms 73:15, "The generation of thy children" = the contemporary race. Isaiah 53:8, "Who shall declare his generation?" = His manner of life who shall declare? or rather = His race, posterity, shall be so numerous that no one shall be able to declare it.

In [[Matthew 1:17]], the word means a succession or series of persons from the same stock. [[Matthew 3:7]], "Generation of vipers" = brood of vipers. 24:34, "This generation" = the persons then living contemporary with Christ. [[1 Peter 2:9]], "A chosen generation" = a chosen people.

The Hebrews seem to have reckoned time by the generation. In the time of Abraham a generation was an hundred years, thus- [[Genesis 15:16]], "In the fourth generation" = in four hundred years (comp. verse 13 and Exodus 12:40). In [[Deuteronomy 1:35]] and 2:14 a generation is a period of thirty-eight years.

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