Usually means: Group born and living contemporaneously.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word generation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. generation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. generation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. generation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Generation, generation: Wordnik
  5. generation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. generation: Wiktionary
  7. generation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. generation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. generation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. generation: Dictionary.com
  11. generation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. generation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Generation (Audio Bullys album), Generation (Dexter Gordon album), Generation (Kenny Burrell album), Generation (comics), Generation (disambiguation), Generation (film), Generation (particle physics), Generation (physics), Generation (play), Generation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Generation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. generation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. generation: Rhymezone
  17. Generation (f), generation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. generation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. generation: Free Dictionary
  20. generation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. generation, generation (photography): Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. generation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. generation: Collins English Dictionary
  24. generation: Vocabulary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Generation: Energy Dictionary
  3. Generation: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. generation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. generation: Netlingo
  3. generation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Generation: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. generation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. generation: Idioms
  2. Generation: Africa Glossary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Generation: Easton Bible
  2. Generation: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Generation: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Generation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Generation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Generation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Biological Control (No longer online)
  5. Generation (gross), Generation (net): NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  7. Tsunami Terminology (No longer online)
  8. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun:  The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
noun:  (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
noun:  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.
noun:  (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
noun:  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.
noun:  A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
noun:  (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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
noun:  A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
noun:  A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
noun:  (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
noun:  (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.

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