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The answer GENERATION has 20 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of generation in various dictionaries:
noun - all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
noun - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
noun - the normal time between successive generations
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| One may be "Beat" or "Lost" or a period of about 30 years |
| Hemingway used Gertrude Stein's "You are all a lost" this word in the epigraph to "The Sun Also Rises" |
| Confusingly, "second"-this American can mean either that your parents or your grandparents immigrated here |
| Ecclesiastes: "One ___ passeth away, and another ___ cometh" |
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| all the people of about the same age within a society or within a particular family: |
| a period of about 25 to 30 years, in which most human babies become adults and have their own children: |
| used to describe the nationality of someone belonging to the first, second, third, etc. group of people of the same age in the family to have been born in that country: |
| a group of products or machines that are all at the same stage of development: |
| all the people of about the same age within a society or within a particular family, or the usual period of time from a persons birth to the birth of his or her children: |
| A generation is also a group of products or machines that are all at the same stage of development: |
| (of living things) the act or process of reproducing |
| a group of people who are about the same age within a society or within a particular family: |
| the process of producing something that will create a profit, income, jobs, etc.: |
| a group of products or machines that are all at the same stage of development |
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A generation is "all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively". It can also be described as, "the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own". In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. It is also known as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in the biological sciences. * "Generation" is also often used synonymously with cohort in social science; under this formulation it means "people within a delineated population who experience the same significant events within a given period of time". Generations in this sense of birth cohort, also known as "social generations", are widely used in popular culture, and have been the basis for sociological analysis. Serious analysis of generations began in the nineteenth century, emerging from an increasing awareness of the possibility of permanent |