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Synonyms for offspring
ˈɔfˌsprɪŋ, ˈɒf-off·spring

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Wiktionary4.0 / 2 votes

  1. offspringnoun

    Synonyms:
    issue, baby, child, get

    Antonyms:
    genitor, father, parent, progenitor, mother

  2. offspringnoun

    Synonyms:
    lineage, descendant, get, progeny

    Antonyms:
    forefather, ancestor, forebear, forbear

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. offspring, progeny, issuenoun

    the immediate descendants of a person

    "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

    Synonyms:
    materialization, topic, young, emergence, progeny, subject, effect, military issue, materialisation, number, issuance, result, proceeds, exit, event, matter, yield, egress, outlet, outcome, return, government issue, take, takings, issuing, upshot, publication, payoff, issue, way out, consequence

  2. offspring, materialization, materialisationnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    young, manifestation, issue, progeny, materialization, materialisation

  3. young, offspringnoun

    any immature animal

    Synonyms:
    young, youth, issue, progeny, materialization, materialisation

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. offspringnoun

    Synonyms:
    issue, progeny, child or children, descendant or descendants, posterity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. offspringnoun

    Synonyms:
    children, issue, progeny, posterity, descendants

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "offspring":

    progeny, descent, brood, descendant, offshoot

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD2.0 / 1 vote

  1. offspring

    Synonyms:
    Progeny, see there

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How to use offspring in a sentence?

  1. Rod Mitchell:

    This study is particularly neat because it takes advantage of errors that are known to occur during culture of XY cells, which lead to loss of the Y chromosome and subsequent gain of a second X chromosome, resulting in XX cells that are capable of generating live offspring.

  2. Berlin Zoo:

    On Saturday evening, Berlin's panda population doubled as Germany welcomed its first-ever panda offspring - two of them!

  3. Florence Brown:

    This is supported by the fact that women with the best diabetes control . . . in pregnancy had offspring that performed better academically than offspring of . . . women without diabetes, the authors of this study do endorse this as a possible explanation for their findings.

  4. Karl Pillemer:

    If Mom is more emotionally close to one child or another, she is also deeply concerned about what happens to all of her offspring, worry is love, or an expression of it.

  5. Doug Bairner:

    Matching livestock online is even easier than it is to match humans because there's a huge amount of data that sits behind these wonderful animals that predicts what their offspring will be.


Translations for offspring

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  • سلالة, ذريةArabic
  • нәҫел, балаBashkir
  • потомъкBulgarian
  • potomstvoCzech
  • Nachkommenschaft, Sprösslinge, Nachfahren, Nachkommen, Nachwuchs, Nachkommin, Tochter, Kind, Sohn, Abkömmlinge, Nachkomme, Hinterlassenschaft, Sprössling, Nachfahrinnen, NachkomminnenGerman
  • τέκνο, παιδίGreek
  • idaro, ido, filino, filoEsperanto
  • progenieSpanish
  • lapsi, jälkeläinen, aikaansaannos, jälkikasvuFinnish
  • enfants, progéniture, enfant, descendance, enfanceFrench
  • clannIrish
  • clann, àil, sliochd, àlScottish Gaelic
  • զավակArmenian
  • figlia, discendenti, discendente, figlioItalian
  • צHebrew
  • Japanese
  • 자녀Korean
  • fetusLatin
  • nakomelingschap, kinderen, nakomelingen, afstammeling, nazaat, kind, kinders, voortbrengst, nageslacht, nageslachten, productie, nakomeling, afstammelingenDutch
  • etterkommarar, avkom, barn, etterkomar, ætling, ætting, etterkomarar, etterkommarNorwegian Nynorsk
  • barn, ættinger, avkom, ætlinger, etterkommer, ætting, ætling, etterkommereNorwegian
  • potomstwo, potomekPolish
  • filho, descendência, rebento, filhaPortuguese
  • отпрыск, потомство, потомокRussian
  • pòtōmstvo, pòtomakSerbo-Croatian
  • potomstvo, potomekSlovak
  • avkommor, avkomma, avkomling, avkomlingar, ättling, ättlingarSwedish
  • çocuk, evlatTurkish
  • con cháuVietnamese
  • 子孫Chinese

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