generation
NOUN
/,dʒɛnə'reɪʃən/
10 LETTERS · 4 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH G
generation is a valid 10-letter word worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
G2E1N1E1R1A1T1I1O1N1
2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =11 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 22TRIPLE WORD → 33
MEANING
What does generation mean?
NOUN · 7 SENSES
1
A coming into being.
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The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.
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All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.
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A stage of technological development or innovation.
“the third generation of computers”
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Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.
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The normal time between successive generations.
“they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade”
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The production of heat or electricity.
“dams were built for the generation of electricity”
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