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Antonyms for generation
ˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃəngen·er·a·tion

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.4 / 7 votes

  1. generation

    Antonyms:
    perpetuity, eternity, immortality

    Synonyms:
    age, period, era, epoch, lifetime, offspring, stock, race, origination, breed, progeny, formation

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. coevals, contemporaries, generationnoun

    all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

    Synonyms:
    coevals, contemporaries, genesis, multiplication, propagation

  2. generationnoun

    group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

    Synonyms:
    genesis, coevals, contemporaries, multiplication, propagation

  3. generationnoun

    the normal time between successive generations

    "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"

    Synonyms:
    genesis, coevals, contemporaries, multiplication, propagation

  4. generationnoun

    a stage of technological development or innovation

    "the third generation of computers"

    Synonyms:
    genesis, coevals, contemporaries, multiplication, propagation

  5. genesis, generationnoun

    a coming into being

    Synonyms:
    coevals, contemporaries, genesis, multiplication, propagation

  6. generationnoun

    the production of heat or electricity

    "dams were built for the generation of electricity"

    Synonyms:
    genesis, coevals, contemporaries, multiplication, propagation

  7. generation, multiplication, propagationnoun

    the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

    Synonyms:
    genesis, multiplication, times, contemporaries, extension, propagation, coevals

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. generationnoun

    Synonyms:
    procreation, reproduction, prolification, begetting, origination, production, formation

How to use generation in a sentence?

  1. Ritu Phogat:

    I see this sport growing by leaps and bounds in India, my debut will be shown live on TV and I hope it inspires the next generation... Our country is changing. Young girls now have a platform for take up any sport.

  2. Commissioner Bernard Kerik:

    Those memories will remain with us until the day we die, i watched innocent civilians jump – one, two, and three at a time. With each generation after the attacks, our citizens become less vigilant. It is imperative every American knows what happened that day and realizes the overall threat against us.

  3. Dianna Muller:

    Growing up, my generation of women have been told we can do anything that we want.

  4. Ivan Zamorano:

    But I've never seen so many players of this quality, all being successful abroad, i think they deserve to win something as the greatest generation that Chilean football has ever had.

  5. Edmund Burke:

    Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

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