generacioun

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

generacioun (plural generaciouns)

  1. generation (collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time)
    • c. 1380, Bible (John Wycliffe version), Matthew 1:1
      The book of the generacioun of Jhesu Crist, the sone of Dauid, the sone of Abraham.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants[edit]

  • English: generation