Definitions for offspring
ˈɔfˌsprɪŋ, ˈɒf-off·spring

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 4 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Offspringnoun

   Etymology: off and spring.

   1. Propagation; generation.

   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.

   2. The thing propagated or generated; children; descendents.

   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.

   3. Production of any kind.

   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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 6 votes

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 ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. offspring

   A male or female person or animal.

   Their offspring were loving and calm.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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   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  

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   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 Tehorah_Elyon on September 5, 2023  

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1. offspring

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Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Consequence
   • Relative

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce offspring?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say offspring in sign language?

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. 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.

2. Wulf Palinski:

   Further research is warranted to understand the exact mechanisms, but high cholesterol in mothers may impact the development of organ systems in the fetus or leave a lasting imprint on the regulation of genes that help maintain cholesterol levels in the adult offspring.

3. Rick Starr:

   People have seen multiple fish, Nicholas Ta's not just one, but they're all the same size indicating that they're not offspring, we're not seeing multiple different size classes, so the best guess right now is that these fish are all older fish that haven't reproduced.

4. Rachel Yehuda:

   The gene changes in the children could only be attributed to Holocaust exposure in the parents, to our knowledge, this provides the first demonstration of transmission of pre-conception stress effects resulting in epigenetic changes in both the exposed parents and their offspring in humans.

5. Joanna Kitlinska:

   Up to 75 percent of children with FASD have biological fathers who are alcoholics, suggesting that preconceptual paternal alcohol consumption negatively impacts their offspring.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=offspring
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Offspring
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=offspring
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=offspring