| 1. fathered, birth, nativity
2. that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family 1) the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy 2) metaph. a race of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character 2b1. esp. in a bad sense, a perverse race 3. the whole multitude of men living at the same time 4. an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years |