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| 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: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, blood, brood, clan, class, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, genealogy, genre, group, house, household, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, network, pedigree, people, progeny, race, relationship, strain, subdivision, system, tribe, ancestors, children, descendants, forebears, generations, heirs and assigns, in-laws, ménage, parentage, progenitors, relations, relatives, siblings |
| 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 |
| 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 |
* = 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 |
| 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: | 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: | age, cycle, date, day, eon, epoch, generation, stage, term, time, aeon, days |
| 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: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence, duration |
| Synonyms: | being, career, continuance, course, cycle, endurance, epoch, era, expectancy, extent, generation, history, length, life span, lifetime, longevity, orbit, period, pilgrimage, record, season, span, survival, time, days |
| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth, creation |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, country, countryside, environment, forest, generation, landscape, macrocosm, outdoors, scenery, setting, universe, view, world, megacosm, natural history, seascape |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intercourse between animate beings |
| Synonyms: | copulation, fornication, generation, intimacy, lovemaking, magnetism, procreation, reproduction, sexuality, birds and the bees, coition, coitus, facts of life, relations, sensuality |
| Antonyms: | abstention, chastity |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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