Generation and Kind

Generation

Generation noun - Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

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Kind and generation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kind" instead a noun "Generation".

Kind noun - One of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic.

Usage example: we looked at just about every kind of flooring before deciding which to use in the kitchen

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Generation and kind are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Generation" instead a noun "Kind".

Nearby Words: kindly, kindness, kindliness

human	human generation	human kind
old	old generation	old kind
particular	particular generation	particular kind
certain	certain generation	certain kind
Other adjectives: present, original, true, single, popular, powerful, wrong, dark, new, worst, last, different.

Justified in that her race's gene pool gets progressively weaker every generation, as every heroine (also called Nina) from the other games get some kind of special ability from their wings.

Source: Wings Do Nothing
Also Vincent's own Super Prototype, the Lancelot: the world's first seventh-generation KMF, later upgraded into the one-of-a-kind ninth-generation unholy terror known as the Lancelot Albion.

Source: Super Prototype
Very serious, by-the-book, adorkable, and kind (well at least to people not of her own generation).

Source: Break The Cutie / Video Games

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