Offspring

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Offspring \Off"spring`\, n. sing. & pl. [Off + spring.]
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     1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.]
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     2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant


        or descendants, however remote from the stock.
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              To the gods alone
              Our future offspring and our wives are known.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  offspring
       n 1: the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother
            of many offspring"; "he died without issue" [syn: {progeny},
             {issue}]
       2: something that comes into existence as a result;
          "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the
          French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this
          skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
          [syn: {materialization}, {materialisation}]
       3: any immature animal [syn: {young}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  137 Moby Thesaurus words for "offspring":
     aftermath, artifact, bairn, brainchild, breed, brood, by-product,
     cherub, child, children, chit, coinage, composition, conclusion,
     concoction, consequence, consequent, corollary, creation, creature,
     crowning achievement, darling, daughter, derivation, derivative,
     descendant, descendants, descent, development, distillate,
     distillation, dynasty, effect, end product, essence, event,
     eventuality, eventuation, extract, family, folks, foster child,
     fruit, get, grandchild, grandchildren, granddaughter, grandson,
     great-grandchildren, handiwork, harvest, hatch, hearth, heir,
     heiress, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household,
     inheritors, innocent, invention, issue, kid, kids, kitten, lamb,
     lambkin, legacy, line, lineage, little bugger, little fellow,
     little guy, little innocent, little one, little ones, little tad,
     little tot, logical outcome, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork,
     menage, mintage, mite, new generation, new mintage, nipper,
     offshoot, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth,
     peewee, people, posterity, precipitate, produce, product,
     production, progeniture, progeny, result, resultant,
     rising generation, scion, seed, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent,
     shaver, son, son and heir, sonny, sons, spawn, stepchild,
     stepdaughter, stepson, succession, successor, swarm, tad, tot,
     treasures, upshot, wee tot, work, young, younglings, youngster,
     youngsters