Emily Dickinson Lexicon

generation (-s), n. [see generate, v.]

1. Kindred; nation; people of the same time period; deceased loved ones who used to be alive; [fig.] children of God.
2. People; [plural]; citizens; multitudes; populations; concourses; throngs; large groups of contemporaries.
3. Posterity; ancestral line; family lineage; [plural] descendants; successions of relatives.