Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular.

(obsolete) In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.

The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. / The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. / (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.

(chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.

Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous. / Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.

(now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality.

plural of generation

In a generous manner, in a way that is giving or ample.

To speak in generalities, or in vague terms. / To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles. / To spread throughout the body and become systemic.

simple past tense and past participle of generate