Definition of Generations

1. Noun. Plural of generation. ¹

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Definition of Generations

1. generation [n] - See also: generation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Generations

generate
generated
generated occlusal path
generates
generating
generation
generation X
generation effect
generation gap
generation gaps
generation loss
generation time
generational
generationally
generationer
generations (current term)
generative
generative empathy
generative medicine
generatively
generativist
generativity
generator
generator potential
generators
generatrices
generatrix
generatrixes
generic
generic drug

Literary usage of Generations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvard Theological Review by Harvard Divinity School (1921)
"FOURTEEN generations: 490 YEARS AN EXPLANATION OF THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS "So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen generations, ..."

2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"Alternations of generations. Alternation of generations is of common occurrence amongst the Hydrozoa, and something analogous to it has been found to take ..."

3. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1877)
"•Ipomoea purpurea, comparison of the height and fertility of the crossed and self-fertilised plants during ten successive generations —Greater ..."

4. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"Number of generations Taking the minimum duration of a generation in Washington so far as observed (and this must not be taken as the scientific minimum, ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"Miss Le Blanc had in her possession the letters and other documents of three generations. These papers, yellow with age and with the writing so faded as to ..."

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