ˌfirst geneˈration BrE AmE noun [singular]
1 . people who have moved to live in a new country, or the children of these people
2 . the first type of a machine to be developed
first generation of
the first generation of hand-held computers
3 . the first people to do something
first generation of
the first generation of radical feminists in the US
—first-generation adjective :
first-generation Americans