Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 4 compound words that contain generations. The most common are listed below. Open generations in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- Future Generations
- Three Generations
- alternation of generationsSynonym of metagenesis: The production of sexual and asexual organisms in alternate generations.
- Stolen Generationsplural of Stolen Generation: Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who as children who were removed from their families by government agencies or church missions, between approximately 1869 and …
- clogs to clogs in three generationsWealth earned in one generation seldom lasts through the third (grandchild's) generation.
- alternate generationsplural of alternate generation: Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.
- beat generationsplural of beat generation: A group of countercultural American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their most important works are Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), and William S …
- micro-generationsplural of micro-generation: The generation of zero-carbon or low-carbon heat and power by individuals, small businesses and communities to meet their own needs.
- next generationsplural of next generation: The succeeding generation.
- sandwich generationsplural of sandwich generation: A generation of adults who must provide care simultaneously to their aging parents and also their own children.
- spontaneous generationsplural of spontaneous generation: The fancied production of live organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters.
- second-harmonic generationsplural of second-harmonic generation: A nonlinear optical process in which two photons with the same frequency interact with a nonlinear material.
- Facebook generationsplural of Facebook generation: A demographic group that has matured using social media as their primary networking tool.
- shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generationsSynonym of clogs to clogs in three generations: Wealth earned in one generation seldom lasts through the third (grandchild's) generation.
Compound words 4
- microgenerationsplural of microgeneration: The generation of zero-carbon or low-carbon heat and power by individuals, small businesses and communities to meet their own needs.
- neogenerationsplural of neogeneration: The regeneration of tissue.
- progenerationsplural of progeneration: The act of begetting; propagation.
- subgenerationsplural of subgeneration: A generation that belongs to another generation.