The generation gap

Definition

generation / dʒenǝ'reÇʃn / n ၁။ [CGp] တစ္ေခတ္တည္းတြင္ ေမြးဖြားသူမ်ား။ …တို႔ေခတ္။ ေခတ္၏…။ the younger generation ❍ My generation has/ have a quite different outlook from my father's and my grandfather's. ၂။ [C] အႏွစ္ ၂၅-၃၀ ခန္႔ ကာလ။ a generation ago ❍ within one generation. ၃။ [C,U] မ်ဳိးဆက္တစ္ဆက္။ မ်ဳိးဆက္။ Three generations were present __ myself, my mother and my grandmother. ❍ stories handed down from generation to generation ❍ a second-/ third- generation American (ie sb whose family have lived in America for two/ three generations). ၄။ (က) [ C usu sing ] သက္တူရြယ္တူ လူတစ္စု။ a new generation of opera lovers/ fashion designers. (ခ) ပစၥည္းတစ္ခု၏ တိုးတက္လာမႈ အဆင့္တစ္ဆင့္။ the new generation of airliners ❍ fifth- generation computing. ၅။ [U] ျဖစ္ေပၚလာျခင္း။ nuclear power generation ❍ new methods of income generation ❍ the generation of racial hatred. ၆။ ( biology ) သက္ရိွတို႔၏ တိုးတက္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးလာမႈ။ Humans and animals were thought to have arisen by spontaneous generation. ❏ the generation gap n [sing] လူႀကီးႏွင့္လူငယ္ ျခားနား ကြာဟခ်က္။

Examples

1. The site was preserved as a monument for future generations.
2. People retiring today are wealthier than the previous generation.
3. [generation of] : His work has been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists.
4. Generations of schoolchildren have sat at these desks.
5. My mother was the only one in her generation to go to university.
6. [generation of] : The novel is about several generations of a French family.
7. Within a generation
8. the family had lost all its wealth.
9. A new generation of mobile phones
10. Cheap electricity generation