GENERATION

noun Date: 14th century 1. a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor, a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously, a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period, a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type , 2. the action or process of producing offspring ; procreation, the process of coming or bringing into being , origination by a generating process ; production , the average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring, ~al adjective ~ally adverb