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| Main Entry: |
offspring
[awf-spring, of-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, bambino, brood, chip off old block, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeniture, progeny, pup, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, anklebiter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, shaver, small fry, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teen, teenager, teenybopper, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin, whippersnapper, young one, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | daughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female child |
| Synonyms: | female offspring, girl, offspring, woman |
| Main Entry: | descendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | brood, child, children, chip off old block, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off |
| Antonyms: | ascendant, predecessor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, descendants, get, heirs, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed |
| Antonyms: | parent |
| Main Entry: | lineage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, breed, clan, descendants, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, stirps, stock, succession, tribe |
| Notes: | linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent |
| Main Entry: | outgrowth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | product, consequence |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, branch, by-product, derivative, descendant, development, effect, emergence, end, end result, issue, member, offshoot, offspring, outcome, result, spin-off, yield |
| Main Entry: | posterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | future generations |
| Synonyms: | breed, brood, children, descendants, family, heirs, issue, lineage, next generation, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, stock, succeeding generations, successors, unborn |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | race |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethnic group |
| Synonyms: | blood, breed, clan, color, cultural group, culture, family, folk, house, issue, kin, kind, kindred, line, lineage, nation, nationality, offspring, people, progeny, seed, species, stock, strain, tribe, type, variety |
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