1) fathered, birth, nativity
 2) that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family
   2a) the several ranks of natural descent, the successive
       members of a genealogy
   2b) metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments,
       pursuits, character
       2b1) esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation
 3) the whole multitude of men living at the same time
 4) an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied by each successive
    generation), a space of 30 - 33 years