Definition of generational in English:
generational
adjective ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)nəl
1Relating to or characteristic of all the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
generational differences in television usage
we're seeing a generational shift in attitudes
Example sentencesExamples
- The prime minister and the president have a generational rapport and an affinity of character.
- The paradigmatic narrative of leaving suburbia while on the brink of adulthood can be mapped across generational difference.
- Politics impacted on daily life owing partly to generational and structural changes in the main parties.
- That is why it has hit a generational nerve, as if no one had told that story before.
- This was also a year in which a generational shift seemed too striking to overlook.
- I take it to be simply a matter of fashion, a generational thing.
- Broadly, there was a generational divide in the reaction.
- This tumultuous spring also marks a generational shift in Europe's political landscape.
- This was the first time I saw a generational split that clearly divided the audience between the younger generation and the boomers.
- In addition to economic changes, we are experiencing generational changes.
- 1.1 Relating to the different generations of a particular family.
a compelling generational saga
Example sentencesExamples
- In some ways, rejection by a brother or sister is worse because it comes without the parental excuse of generational baggage.
- In fact, this movie isn't a generational family drama at all.
- It relates to the specific context of his family during its generational shift away from manual labor into the upwardly mobile profession of painting.
- These institutions have explored ways of enriching the experiences of groups as diverse as high school friends or a multi-generational family.
- There are often multi-generational families who are simply outside what he has called the real economy.
- It is also a generational film, of the passing of the mantle of leadership from elder to younger.
- Upon entering each unit, viewers are taken through a generational progression of each family.
- He underlines just how synchronous and immediate generational relations really are among the Inuit.
- It need not be rendered as classic lineage descent, provided that generational depth is acknowledged as shallow.
- The second is the generational name, and the given name is written last.
Derivatives
adverb
It doesn't really make much sense for marketers to concentrate their efforts generationally.
Example sentencesExamples
- But certainly a very important torch has been passed generationally in terms of leadership in this nation.
- The capacity audience was racially and generationally mixed, as were the two dozen members of the band.
- When you are tempted to compromise and just take the easy way out, I challenge you to think generationally.
- Each child will pass that information down generationally to their families.
Definition of generational in US English:
generational
adjectiveˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)nəl
1Relating to or characteristic of all the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
generational differences in television usage
we're seeing a generational shift in attitudes
Example sentencesExamples
- This was also a year in which a generational shift seemed too striking to overlook.
- Politics impacted on daily life owing partly to generational and structural changes in the main parties.
- This tumultuous spring also marks a generational shift in Europe's political landscape.
- This was the first time I saw a generational split that clearly divided the audience between the younger generation and the boomers.
- In addition to economic changes, we are experiencing generational changes.
- Broadly, there was a generational divide in the reaction.
- I take it to be simply a matter of fashion, a generational thing.
- The prime minister and the president have a generational rapport and an affinity of character.
- The paradigmatic narrative of leaving suburbia while on the brink of adulthood can be mapped across generational difference.
- That is why it has hit a generational nerve, as if no one had told that story before.
- 1.1 Relating to the different generations of a particular family.
a compelling generational saga
Example sentencesExamples
- There are often multi-generational families who are simply outside what he has called the real economy.
- In some ways, rejection by a brother or sister is worse because it comes without the parental excuse of generational baggage.
- It is also a generational film, of the passing of the mantle of leadership from elder to younger.
- It relates to the specific context of his family during its generational shift away from manual labor into the upwardly mobile profession of painting.
- These institutions have explored ways of enriching the experiences of groups as diverse as high school friends or a multi-generational family.
- It need not be rendered as classic lineage descent, provided that generational depth is acknowledged as shallow.
- Upon entering each unit, viewers are taken through a generational progression of each family.
- The second is the generational name, and the given name is written last.
- He underlines just how synchronous and immediate generational relations really are among the Inuit.
- In fact, this movie isn't a generational family drama at all.