What does offspring mean?

Definitions for offspring
ˈɔfˌsprɪŋ, ˈɒf-off·spring

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word offspring.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. offspring, progeny, issuenoun

    the immediate descendants of a person

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

  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"

  3. young, offspringnoun

    any immature animal

Wiktionary

  1. offspringnoun

    A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s)

  2. offspringnoun

    All a person's descendants, including further generations

  3. offspringnoun

    An animal or plant's progeny, known as young

  4. offspringnoun

    Another produce, result of an entity's efforts

    Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring

  5. offspringnoun

    A process launched by another process

  6. Etymology: From ofspring, from ofspring, equivalent to. Compare afspringr. More at off, spring.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Offspringnoun

    Etymology: off and spring.

    All things coveting to be like unto God in being ever, that which cannot hereunto attain personally, doth seem to continue itself by offspring and propagation. Richard Hooker.

    When the fountain of mankind
    Did draw corruption, and God’s curse, by sin;
    This was a charge, that all his heirs did bind,
    And all his offspring grew corrupt therein. Davies.

    To the Gods alone
    Our future offspring, and our wives are known. Dryd.

    His principal actor is the son of a goddess, not to mention the offspring of other deities. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

    Tho’ both fell before their hour,
    Time on their offspring hath no pow’r;
    Nor fire nor fate their bays shall blast,
    Nor death’s dark vail their days o’ercast. John Denham.

ChatGPT

  1. offspring

    Offspring refers to the product of reproduction; a new organism produced by one or more parents. It can represent the young born of living organisms, produced either by a single parent or two parents through sexual reproduction. In a broad context, it could include children, kids, babies, young animals, or young plants.

Wikidata

  1. Offspring

    In biology, offspring is the product of reproduction, of a new organism produced by one or more parents. Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny in a more general way. This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee. Human offspring are referred to as children; male children are sons and female children are daughters. See kinship and descent. Offspring can occur after mating or after Artificial Insemination

Editors Contribution

  1. offspring

    A male or female person or animal.

    Their offspring were loving and calm.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  


  2. offspring

    A person or animal created with sperm and ovum.

    The offspring were created in a beautiful way.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 24, 2020  


  3. offspringnoun

    This term is used literally or metaphorically to refer to plants or grain, sowing or harvest, male reproductive seed, human children or physical descendants, and also to spiritual children are to Christ.

    Christ is the first spiritual offspring of God.

    Etymology: Flowers from seeds


    Submitted by Tony_Elyon on September 5, 2023  

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'offspring' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3707

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of offspring in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of offspring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of offspring in a Sentence

  1. Elinor Sullivan:

    These factors impact how the brain develops, the risk for autism would be further increased if women were obese and had diabetes as the levels of inflammatory factors and nutrients that the offspring would be exposed to would be further elevated.

  2. 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.

  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. 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.

  5. Brendan Zietsch:

    We can't rule out the possibility that extreme environmental events, like famine, could affect offspring sex ratios. But we can say for sure that the variability of environments that Swedes born after 1932 experienced did not affect their having boys or girls.

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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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