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Generations
Definition
Generations means all the people in a family, or all the people who were born at about the same time.
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Common collocations
- future generations
- past generations
- several generations
- next generation
- across generations
- generation gap
- a generation ago
- new generation
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Usage note
The word 'generations' typically refers to a group of people born and living during the same time, or the average period between the birth of parents and their offspring. It can also refer to a stage in the development of a product or technology.
Example sentences
- My grandparents are from a different generation than me.
- We can learn a lot from the older generation.
- The younger generation is more interested in technology.
- My parents' generation grew up without cellphones.
- Each generation has its own music and fashion.
Quotes
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill
Believe you can and you're halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt
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