generations
Successive family layers
Generations is the plural of generation—a group of people born and living around the same time, or the span of time between parents and children (roughly 25-30 years).
The word often appears in discussions of cultural shifts: Generations of Americans grew up with television.
It also describes successive versions or iterations: three generations of iPhones.
When people speak of generations of a family, they mean lineages across time: My family has farmed this land for generations.
Family line of descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- descentDownward slope or lineage
- forebearsAncestral family members
progenitors · ancestors · heritage · pedigree · forefathers · predecessors · patriarchs · matriarchs
Biological descendants produced
- posterityFuture generations collectively
- heirsThose who inherit
- childrenYoung human beings
- grandchildrenOffspring of offspring
great-grandchildren · scions · successors · issue · seed · inheritors · legacy · continuation
1946-1964 birth cohort
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen XPost-boomer demographic cohort
- Gen ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- Gen AlphaPost-2010 birth cohort
demographics · age groups · peers · contemporaries · youth · elders · seniors · teenagers
Giving to successors
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- continuityUninterrupted progression or coherence
- handoverTransfer of control
- transitionChange from one state
handing over · legacy · dynasty · succession planning · stewardship · perpetuation · chain · relay
Distinct historical period
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
- ageDuration of existence
- centuryHundred-year span
- decadeTen-year span
millennium · antiquity · modern era · postwar · Victorian · Edwardian · interwar · contemporary
Copying or procreation
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- life cycleOrganism's full developmental sequence
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- offspringBiological descendants produced
filial · parental · reproductive cycle · population · species · procreation · propagation · fertility
Successive passes through process
- versionsDistinct forms or renditions
- upgradesImproved replacement versions
- releasesLets go or publishes
- modelsScaled representations or fashion workers
next-gen · innovation · evolution · advancement · obsolescence · legacy systems · backwards compatibility
ancestry
Family line of descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- descentDownward slope or lineage
forebears · progenitors · ancestors · heritage · pedigree · forefathers · predecessors · patriarchs · matriarchs · kinship
offspring
Biological descendants produced
grandchildren · great-grandchildren · scions · successors · issue · seed · inheritors · legacy · continuation · bloodline
baby boomers
1946-1964 birth cohort
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen XPost-boomer demographic cohort
- Gen ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
Gen Alpha · demographics · age groups · peers · contemporaries · youth · elders · seniors · teenagers · adolescents
passing down
Giving to successors
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- continuityUninterrupted progression or coherence
- handoverTransfer of control
transition · handing over · legacy · dynasty · succession planning · stewardship · perpetuation · chain · relay
epoch
Distinct historical period
decade · millennium · antiquity · modern era · postwar · Victorian · Edwardian · interwar · contemporary · historical
reproduction
Copying or procreation
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- life cycleOrganism's full developmental sequence
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
offspring · filial · parental · reproductive cycle · population · species · procreation · propagation · fertility · gestation
iterations
Successive passes through process
- versionsDistinct forms or renditions
- upgradesImproved replacement versions
- releasesLets go or publishes
models · next-gen · innovation · evolution · advancement · obsolescence · legacy systems · backwards compatibility
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- family dramafamily bonds, sibling rivalry, family reunion, kinship, family secret
- family generationsgrandparents, grandchildren, grandparent, grandchild, family tree
- family historyancestry, ancestor, ancestors, descendant, descendants
- family themesmother figure, father figure, parent, child, brother
- life cycleslife cycle, birth, death, growth, metamorphosis
generationsdestructions
Acts of obliterating completely
annihilations · extinctions · eliminations · eradications · obliterations
generationsextinctions
Permanent species loss
dead ends · terminations · discontinuations · breaks · sterility
- generation gapAge-based cultural disconnect
- younger generationThose born later
- next generationSubsequent group following current
- new generationSuccessors to current group
- first generationEarliest in a line
- older generationThose born earlier
generation, regeneration, generational, intergenerational, generationally