a generation; by implication an age (the period or the persons)

1. fathered, birth, nativity

2. that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family

a. the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy

b. metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character

1. esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation

3. the whole multitude of men living at the same time

4. an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years