generation

/dʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/

意味: 世代、発生

例文: June belongs to the sparkle tea generation.
　　  ジューンはキラキラ紅茶世代に属している。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: next generation(次世代), younger generation(若い世代), older generation(年配の世代)

定義: 人々が生まれてから成長し、次の世代に引き継ぐまでの期間を指します。通常、約20〜30年の期間を意味します。また、技術や製品の新しいバージョンを指すこともあります。

generationは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
Noun: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
Noun: the normal time between successive generations
Noun: a stage of technological development or innovation
Noun: a coming into being
Noun: the production of heat or electricity
Noun: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The new generation loves technology more than ever.(新しい世代はかつてないほど技術を愛している。)
This generation faces unique environmental challenges.(この世代は独特の環境問題に直面している。)
Each generation learns from the past to build futures.(それぞれの世代が過去から学び未来を築く。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
Noun: the third generation of computers
Noun: dams were built for the generation of electricity

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): coevals, contemporaries, generation, genesis, multiplication, propagation

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): beginning, biological group, people, phase, production, reproduction, time period

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): age group, air alert, anal stage, ancients, animal group, apogee, baffled, bimester, bimillennium, blind, blood, boring, bout, brave, breeding, brewing, bronze age, business people, calendar day, calendar month, capacity, casus belli, century, chapter, chosen people, clade, class, clientele, clotting time, coevals, colony, creation, cultivation, damned, dawn, day, dead, deaf, decade, defeated, descendants, diakinesis, diplotene, disabled, division, dog days, doomed, downtime, drought, duration, elapsed time, emergence, enemy, enlistment, episcopacy, era, eve, evening, fertile period, festival, field day, flower, folk, fortnight, free, generation, genesis, genital stage, genotype, golden age, great year, ground floor, half life, half-century, homebound, honeymoon, hospitalization, hour, hours, incubation, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, initiate, iron age, lactation, latency stage, lease, leptotene, life, living, lobby, long run, long time, lustrum, mass production, menstrual phase, mentally retarded, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, midweek, midwinter, migration, millennium, mining, miscegenation, morning, multistage, musth, nation, nationality, network army, night, novitiate, occupation, olympiad, oral stage, origin, output, overproduction, overtime, pachytene, past, peacetime, peanut gallery, peoples, phallic stage, phase, phase of cell division, phase of the moon, pocket, poor people, populace, population, prehistory, prohibition, puerperium, quadrennium, quarrying, quarter, quarter-century, question time, quinquennium, rainy day, rank and file, real time, regulation time, reign, retreated, rich people, run, running time, safe period, school, season, secretory phase, seedtime, semester, sericulture, shelf life, sick, silly season, silver age, sleep, smart money, start, study hall, taxonomic group, term, tide, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time off, times, timid, tradespeople, travel time, trial period, trimester, unconfessed, underproduction, unemployed people, uninitiate, uptime, usance, wartime, watch, week, weekend, window, womankind, work time, wounded, year, youth, zygotene

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): baby boom, biogenesis, generation x, peer group, posterity, youth culture

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: generate, generational, multiply, propagate

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: general

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ation

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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