generation

  • 111generation — /dʒɛnəˈreɪʃən / (say jenuh rayshuhn) noun 1. the whole body of individuals born about the same time: the rising generation. 2. the age or average lifetime of a generation; term of years (commonly thirty) accepted as the average difference of age… …

  • 112generation —   Hanauna.    ♦ Relative or one of the same generation, hanauna like, hoa hanauna.    ♦ A single generation, kau apa apa.    ♦ A generation back, kaupapa.    ♦ Relative of the parent s generation, makua.    ♦ Three generations removed. kuakahi.… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 113generation — n. 1 all the people born at a particular time, regarded collectively (my generation; the rising generation). 2 a single step in descent or pedigree (have known them for three generations). 3 a stage in (esp. technological) development (fourth… …

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  • 114Generation of '80 — The Generation of 80 (Spanish: Generación del 80 ) was the governing elite in Argentina from 1880 to 1916. Members of the oligarchy of the provinces and the country s capital, they first joined the League of Governors ( Liga de Gobernadores ),… …

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  • 115Generation "П" — Infobox Book | name = Generation П image caption = author = Victor Pelevin country = Russia language = Russian publisher = series = genre = Novel release date = 1999 media type = Print (Paperback) pages = 256 pp isbn = ISBN 0142001813 preceded by …

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  • 116Generation X — Ge|ne|ra|ti|on X 〈[ ịks], engl. [dʒɛnərɛıʃən ɛ̣ks] f.; ; unz.〉 Altersgruppe der in den 1960er u. 1970er Jahren Geborenen, die in den 1990er Jahren junge Erwachsene waren u. die das Streben ihrer Eltern nach gesellschaftlichen Statussymbolen… …

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  • 117generation X — Meaning The generation of people born in the 1960s and early 70s. Origin Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson s 1964 novel Generation X portrays the children who would come of age in the closing years of the 20th century as apathetic and… …

    Meaning and origin of phrases

  • 118GÉNÉRATION —     Je dirai comment s opère la génération, quand on m aura enseigné comment Dieu s y est pris pour la création.     Mais toute l antiquité, me dites vous, tous les philosophes, tous les cosmogonites sans exception, ont ignoré la création… …

    Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire

  • 119generation C — /dʒɛnəreɪʃən ˈsi/ (say jenuhrayshuhn see) noun the generation which reached maturity in the early 2000s, typified by their facility with the internet as a means of communication, being familiar with the creation of individual content for general… …

  • 120generation X — /dʒɛnəreɪʃən ˈɛks/ (say jenuhrayshuhn eks) noun the generation born in the late 1960s and 1970s, portrayed as being cynical about traditional authority and pragmatic in their approach to life. Also, X generation, gen X. {from the notion that in… …