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children
noun as in brood
noun as in family
Strong matches
ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, line, lineage, network, parentage, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system
Weak matches
noun as in flesh and blood
Weak matches
blood relative, clay, consanguinean, family, kids, kin, kith and kin, offspring, organism, relatives, uterine kin
noun as in posterity
Strong matches
breed, brood, descendants, family, heirs, issue, lineage, offspring, progeny, scions, seed, stock, successors
Weak matches
next generation, progeniture, succeeding generations, unborn
Example Sentences
Lord Prescott married his wife, Pauline, in 1961 and they had two children together - David and Jonathan.
It is estimated about 900 parents with school-age children die in Northern Ireland each year, but some pupils will also lose grandparents and other relatives.
An illegal miner for about eight years, Ndumiso has managed to send his three children to fee-paying schools - one of whom is now in university.
Hamas-aligned media say dozens of people were killed and many are still buried in the rubble - including women and children.
Asking children "What does a scientist look like?" now results in more illustrations of women and people of color than decades ago.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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