former generation

Synonyms

ancestor geriatrics

Antonyms

cadet young youth teens puberty progeny
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Examples

Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Daniel Webster

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. William Stanley Jevons

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown. Chinese Proverb

Words in the phrase

former generation

Close letter words and terms

former federal republic of yugoslavia former firm former following former glories former glory former gold