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generation - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
| Synonyms: | bearing, breeding, formation, genesis, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, begetting, bringing forth, engenderment, fructifying, multiplying, spawning |
| Antonyms: | destruction |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era; age group |
| Synonyms: | breed, crop, day, eon, epoch, period, rank, span, step, time, aeon, contemporaries, days, peers, times |
| Main Entry: | era |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time period in history |
| Synonyms: | age, cycle, date, day, eon, epoch, generation, stage, term, time, aeon, days |
| 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, deposit, design, development, disposition, embodiment, evolution, fabrication, figure, generation, genesis, induction, makeup, manufacture, order, organization, pattern, production, rank, structure, synthesis, crystallization, dispersal, forming, grouping |
| Main Entry: | genealogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's family tree |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, derivation, descent, extraction, generation, heredity, history, line, lineage, pedigree, stock, strain, blood line, genetics, parentage, progeniture, stemma, stirps |
| Main Entry: | genesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, creation |
| Synonyms: | alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, root, source, start, dawning, engendering, provenience |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale, finish |
| Main Entry: | offspring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, brood, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeny, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young, bambino, chip off old block, progeniture, pup |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | production |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creating of goods, result |
| Synonyms: | assembly, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, fabrication, generation, giving, making, management, manufacture, manufacturing, origination, preparation, presentation, producing, provision, reproduction, return, yielding, authoring, elongation, engendering, extention, formulation, fructification, lengthening, prolongation, protraction, rendering, staging |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | reproduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something duplicated; duplication |
| Synonyms: | X-ray*, Xerox*, breeding, carbon*, carbon copy, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, fake, flimsy, generation, imitation, increase, look-alike, mirror image*, multiplication, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrayal, print, procreation, proliferation, propagation, recreation, renewal, replica, revival, twin, Photostat, chip off old block, mimeo, mimeograph, offprint, pic, reduplication, reenactment, replication, reprinting, repro, stat, transcription |
| Antonyms: | original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vintage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crop, especially of wine |
| Synonyms: | collection, epoch, era, generation, harvest, origin, grapes, wine, year |
| Main Entry: | years |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age; old age |
| Synonyms: | caducity, dotage, generation, lifetime, senility, agedness, elderliness, lifespan, oldness, senescence |
| Antonyms: | youth |
| Main Entry: | procreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | breeding, conception, generation, propagation, begetting, engenderment, impregnation |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, making, origination, procreation, production, formulation, laying down, nascency, nativity, 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, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, hour, year |
| Main Entry: | period |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of time |
| Synonyms: | age, course, cycle, date, duration, epoch, era, generation, interval, measure, season, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, term, time, while, years, aeon, days |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, life, life span, lifetime, moment, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, while, chronology, hour, lastingness, many a moon, month, week, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proliferation |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | conception |
| Synonyms: | generation, procreation, propagation, reproduction |
| Main Entry: | propagation |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | procreation |
| Synonyms: | breeding, generation, multiplication, producing, proliferation, reproduction |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a period of time |
| Synonyms: | blue moon*, century, date, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, interim, interval, life, lifetime, millennium, span, aeon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin, cause |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, birth, conception, egg, embryo, font, fountain, fountainhead, generation, genesis, germ, heart, principle, resource, root, seed, stem, well, fount |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, outcome, result |
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