Show the word generation As applied to the body of individuals born about the same period the word generation is reckoned historical ly as meaning SO 30 years of the century giving for example our parents ourselves and our offs priS as the three generations in a hundred years at al thou though 11 ll it has occasionally happened that ones greit gran apa rents have lived in ones lifetime it is unusual so the interval of time between birth of parents their children and their grandchildren Is commonly computed at thirty years literary pi gest est |