generation

Main Entry:
generation [jen-uh-rey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: creation, production
Synonyms: bearing, begetting, breeding, bringing forth, engenderment, formation, fructifying, genesis, multiplying, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning
Antonyms: destruction
Main Entry: age
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a period of time
Synonyms: aeon, blue moon, century, date, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, interim, interval, life, lifetime, millennium, span
Notes: epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time
Main Entry: beginning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: origin, cause
Synonyms: antecedent, birth, conception, egg, embryo, font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, generation, genesis, germ, heart, principle, resource, root, seed, stem, well
Antonyms: conclusion, outcome, result
Main Entry: creation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: development of entity
Synonyms: conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring
Antonyms: destruction, ruin
Main Entry: date
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: point in time; particular day or time
Synonyms: age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year
Main Entry: day
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: era
Synonyms: age, ascendancy, cycle, epoch, generation, height, heyday, period, prime, term, time, years, zenith
Main Entry: era
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: time period in history
Synonyms: aeon, age, cycle, date, day, days, eon, epoch, generation, stage, term, time
Notes: epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time
Main Entry: formation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: composition, establishment
Synonyms: accumulation, architecture, arrangement, compilation, configuration, constitution, construction, creation, crystallization, deposit, design, development, dispersal, disposition, embodiment, evolution, fabrication, figure, forming, generation, genesis, grouping, induction, makeup, manufacture, order, organization, pattern, production, rank, structure, synthesis
Main Entry: genealogy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's family tree
Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, derivation, descent, extraction, generation, genetics, heredity, history, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, progeniture, stemma, stirps, stock, strain
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