generation

noun

1 people of the same generation:

age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life.

2 (generations) generations ago:

ages, an age, years, eons, an eon, a long time, an eternity;

British, informal donkey's years, yonks.

3 the next generation of computers:

crop, batch, wave, type, range.

4 creativity is the generation of novel ideas:

creation, causing, causation, making, engendering, spawning, production, initiation, origination, inception, occasioning, prompting, kindling, triggering, inspiration.

▷antonyms destruction.

5 the male role in human generation:

procreation, reproduction, propagation, breeding, fathering, siring, engendering, spawning, creation;

literary begetting.