Clues for the word "GENERATION"

We've had 12 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 19 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on July 25, 2026.

Definition of generation

n. - The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
n. - Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
n. - That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
n. - A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
n. - Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
n. - The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
n. - The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.