According to demographers, a generation is an age-cohort of people born, living, and dying within a few years of each other. Human generations are roughly defined categories, and the demarcations are not as distinct as they are in many other species....

// adj. 1. Denoting any approach to grammatical characterization involving generative grammar(s), in any sense of that term. 2. Denoting any approach to grammatical characterization which is fully explicit, which is completely...

It takes three generations to make a gentleman. (American) One generation opens the road upon which another generation travels. (Chinese) One generation plants the trees under whose shade another takes its ease....

// n. The process by which a generative grammar enumerates and characterizes the sentences of a language. Such a grammar is said to ‘generate’ those...

Generation (from the Greek γενεά), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. It can also refer to the act of creating something inanimate such as electrical generation or cryptographic code generation. A generation can also be...

In 1991, Douglas Coupland wrote the best-selling novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term, well, Generation X. Gen Xers are roughly defined as those born between 1965 and 1980. At the time of Mr. Coupland’s breakthrough, they were in their early...

Just over a month ago, a young man found himself in an uncomfortable sleeping arrangement. After a night out with a group of friends-dinner on the Lower East Side, drinks at Soho House-he found himself alone in the home of a senior editor at a...

“There’s something going on out there,” said Barack Obama in New Hampshire this week. “Something’s stirring in the wind.” The echo of Bob Dylan’s anthem was apt. Just as a younger generation overturned the assumptions and preconceptions of their parents in the 1960’s, the election...

Keith Moon. When the late Keith Moon wasn't jokingly parading around in Hitler regalia, he could probably be found trashing one of the many hotels The Who stayed at. This weekend, The Times "Travel" section takes a look at the hard-living Moon--who "once nailed his...