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Meaning of xeración | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B2
ʃeɾaˈθjoŋ

Definitions

  1. generation, action of producing life; descendence
    feminine
  2. production, manufacture, action of producing
    feminine
  3. a generation; group of people of approximately the same age
    feminine
  4. a period of time measuring groups of descendants
    feminine

Equivalents

English generation

Examples

“Seya maldito ata setyma geeraçon todo ome que este meu testamento quiser passar ou enbargar”

Every man that this, my testament, wants to pass or impound shall be damned till the seventh generation

“It. lle mando mays a mia casa forte de Rodeiro. con todas las armas. et bastimento que y esteuer. a tempo de meu finamento. con aquellas maneyras et condiçoes que a min mandou o arcibispo dom Martino. que fique senpre enno Primeyro fillo barom et del enno outro et de huun neto que del descender enno outro por sustituyçon como o eu mellor poso et deuo mandar de dereyto. por sustituyçon et se non oueer y baroes que se torne enna primeyra filla que del descender et a a sua geeraçon.”

Item, I bequeath my stronghold of Rodeiro, with all the weapons and provisions that happen to be there at the moment of my decease, with the manners and conditions that the archbishop, Don Martiño, ordered to me: that it stays always with the eldest male son, and from him in the other, and from a grandson who from him descends into another, by substitution, as best as I can do and order in the law, by substitution, and if there were no males, that it turns into the eldest daughter that from him descends an in her offsprings

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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