{"def":{"short":"a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)","long":["fathered, birth, nativity","that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family",["the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy","metaphorically a race of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character",["especially in a bad sense, a perverse race"]],"the whole multitude of men living at the same time","an age (i.e., the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30–33 years"]},"deriv":"from (a presumed derivative of) G1085","pronun":{"ipa":"ɣɛ.nɛˈɑ","ipa_mod":"ʝe̞.ne̞ˈɑ","sbl":"genea","dic":"geh-neh-AH","dic_mod":"gay-nay-AH"},"see":["G1085"]}