| Main Entry: | generation |
| 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: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era; age group |
Synonyms: |
aeon, breed, contemporaries, crop, day, days, eon, epoch, peers, period, rank, span, step, time, times |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
Synonyms: |
ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, clan, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, group, heirs and assigns, house, household, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, ménage, network, parentage, pedigree, people, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, tribe |
| 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 |