Generation and Order

Generation

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

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

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

Usage example: regards draftees as an entirely different order of soldier and less desirable than volunteers

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Generation and order are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Generation" instead a noun "Order".

Nearby Words: ordered, orderly, ordering, orderliness

old	old generation	old order
full	full generation	full order
particular	particular generation	particular order
natural	natural generation	natural order
Other adjectives: certain, current, original, true, single, powerful, actual, entire, wrong, final, random, last, different, previous.

Magdalena (originally from The Darkness), somewhat similarly, is a name passed on from generation to generation of nuns in a certain order that claims to have begun with Mary Magdalene herself.

Source: Church Militant
If your family, generation after generation, passes away in the order I have named, it will be the natural course of life.

Source: Outliving One's Offspring
It has worked periodically about every other generation, but in order to prevent this from happening again, they're planning a much larger scale for the current generation.

Source: Manga / Yozakura Quartet

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