GENERA'TION, noun The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals. 1. Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations. 2. A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation Genesis 15:16. 3. The people of the same period, or living at the same time. O faithless and perverse generation Luke 9:41. 4. Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock. This is the book of the generations of Adam. Genesis 5:1. 5. A family; a race. 6. Progeny; offspring.
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