[
  {
    "word": "generation",
    "phonetic": "/\u02ccd\u0361\u0292\u025bn\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a\u0283\u0259n/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02ccd\u0361\u0292\u025bn\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a\u0283\u0259n/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02ccd\u0361\u0292\u025bn\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a\u0283\u0259n/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/generation-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1749855",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Race, family; breed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Descendants, progeny; offspring.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the generation of a line or curve"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A specific age range whose members can relate culturally to one another.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/generation"
    ]
  }
]