generations

The word “generations” has 4 syllables: gen-er-a-tions

It's pronounced as /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃənz/


What is synonym and antonym for generations?

In the thesaurus, “generations” has 101 synonyms and 1 antonym.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for generations along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for generations

  • ages
  • ancestors
  • ancestry
  • birth
  • births
  • bits
  • blood
  • brackets
  • branches
  • brood
  • categories
  • children
  • clan
  • class
  • classes
  • classifications
  • conceptions
  • constructions
  • creations
  • cycles
  • dates
  • days
  • descendants
  • descent
  • developments
  • divisions
  • dynasty
  • epochs
  • eras
  • extraction
  • fabrications
  • families
  • folk
  • forebears
  • formations
  • genealogy
  • genera
  • geneses
  • genre
  • genuses
  • grades
  • group
  • groups
  • heirs and assigns
  • house
  • household
  • in-laws
  • inheritance
  • innovations
  • inventions
  • issue
  • kind
  • kindred
  • kinds
  • kith and kin
  • leagues
  • line
  • lineage
  • menage
  • nascencies
  • network
  • orders
  • originations
  • parentage
  • pedigree
  • people
  • periods
  • productions
  • progenitors
  • progeny
  • race
  • ranks
  • relations
  • relationship
  • relatives
  • rises
  • rubrics
  • sections
  • sets
  • siblings
  • sorts
  • spaces
  • spans
  • species
  • spells
  • strain
  • stretches
  • subclasses
  • subdivision
  • subdivisions
  • subgroups
  • subspecieses
  • system
  • tiers
  • times
  • tribe
  • types
  • varieties
  • vintages
  • whiles
  • years

Antonyms for generations

Meanings of generations

  • noun
    1. The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
    2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
    3. Race, family; breed.
    4. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
    5. Descendants, progeny; offspring.
    6. The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
    7. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
    8. 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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
    9. A specific age range whose members can relate culturally to one another.
    10. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
    11. A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.

Example Sentences

  • Stories have been passed down through generations of families.
  • These traditions have survived for many generations.
  • The farm has been in their family for five generations.
  • Advances in technology have changed the lives of recent generations.
  • The values were instilled in them by previous generations.

On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to generations, such as: ages, ancestors, ancestry, birth, births, bits, blood.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

years

nativities

days

  • aeon
  • afternoons
  • age
  • ages
  • aurorae
  • auroras
  • being
  • bits
  • career
  • cockcrows
  • continuance
  • course
  • cradle to grave
  • cycle
  • cycles
  • date
  • dates
  • dawns
  • day
  • daybreaks
  • daylights
  • daytimes
  • duration
  • dusks
  • endurance
  • eon
  • epoch
  • epochs
  • era
  • eras
  • evenings
  • eves
  • existence
  • expectancy
  • extent
  • forenoons
  • generation
  • generations
  • gloamings
  • history
  • interval
  • length
  • life
  • life span
  • lifetime
  • lights
  • longevity
  • measure
  • mornings
  • morns
  • natural life
  • nightfalls
  • noons
  • orbit
  • period
  • periods
  • pilgrimage
  • record
  • season
  • space
  • spaces
  • span
  • spans
  • spell
  • spells
  • stage
  • stretch
  • stretches
  • sundowns
  • sunlights
  • sunrises
  • suns
  • sunsets
  • sunshines
  • sunups
  • survival
  • term
  • time
  • times
  • twilights
  • vintages
  • while
  • whiles
  • years

families

  • ancestors
  • ancestry
  • birth
  • blended families
  • blood
  • brackets
  • branches
  • breeds
  • brood
  • broods
  • categories
  • children
  • clan
  • clans
  • clansmen
  • class
  • classes
  • classifications
  • descendants
  • descendents
  • descent
  • descriptions
  • divisions
  • dynasties
  • dynasty
  • extended families
  • extraction
  • feathers
  • folk
  • folks
  • forebears
  • genealogy
  • genera
  • generations
  • genre
  • genuses
  • grades
  • group
  • groups
  • headings
  • heirs and assigns
  • house
  • household
  • households
  • houses
  • ilks
  • in-laws
  • inheritance
  • issue
  • issues
  • kidneys
  • kind
  • kindred
  • kindreds
  • kinds
  • kinfolks
  • kins
  • kinsfolk
  • kinsmen
  • kinswomen
  • kith and kin
  • kiths
  • labels
  • leagues
  • likes
  • line
  • lineage
  • lineages
  • lines
  • manners
  • menage
  • natures
  • network
  • nuclear families
  • offspring
  • offsprings
  • orders
  • parentage
  • pedigree
  • people
  • progenies
  • progenitors
  • progeny
  • race
  • races
  • ranks
  • relations
  • relationship
  • relatives
  • rubrics
  • scions
  • sections
  • seed
  • seeds
  • sets
  • siblings
  • sorts
  • specialities
  • specialties
  • species
  • stocks
  • strain
  • subclasses
  • subdivision
  • subdivisions
  • subgroups
  • subspecieses
  • system
  • tiers
  • titles
  • tribe
  • tribes
  • types
  • varieties

family

  • ancestors
  • ancestry
  • birth
  • blended family
  • blood
  • bracket
  • branch
  • breed
  • brood
  • category
  • children
  • clan
  • clansman
  • class
  • classification
  • descendant
  • descendants
  • descendent
  • descent
  • description
  • division
  • dynasty
  • extended family
  • extraction
  • feather
  • folk
  • folks
  • forebears
  • genealogy
  • generation
  • generations
  • genre
  • genus
  • grade
  • group
  • heading
  • heirs and assigns
  • house
  • household
  • ilk
  • in-laws
  • inheritance
  • issue
  • kidney
  • kin
  • kind
  • kindred
  • kinfolk
  • kinfolks
  • kinsfolk
  • kinsman
  • kinswoman
  • kith
  • kith and kin
  • label
  • league
  • like
  • line
  • lineage
  • manner
  • menage
  • nature
  • network
  • nuclear family
  • offspring
  • order
  • parentage
  • pedigree
  • people
  • progenitors
  • progeny
  • race
  • relations
  • relationship
  • relative
  • relatives
  • rubric
  • scion
  • section
  • seed
  • set
  • siblings
  • sort
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • species
  • stock
  • strain
  • subclass
  • subdivision
  • subgroup
  • subspecies
  • system
  • tier
  • title
  • tribe
  • type
  • variety

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