Offspring

English

Noun

Offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)

1. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s)
2. All a person's descendants, including further generations
3. An animal or plant's progeny, known as young
4. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts

   Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring

5. (computing) A process launched by another process

Notes

• The form offsprings is also used for the plural, especially the computing sense.

Synonyms

• (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): baby/babies, child/children, issue (plural only; not used in singular form), get
• (all descendants): descendants, lineage, progeny, get

Antonyms

• (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female)
• (descendants): ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers

Derived terms

• donor offspring
• parent-offspring conflict

Adjectives for Offspring

precocious; illegitimate; turbulent; new-fledged; frightened; hideous; speckled; spotted; numerous; unfilial; valiant; inferior; diminutive; sole; resulting; fatherless; groveling; motherless.

Verbs for Offspring

bestow—upon; bless with—; enjoy—; idolize—; issue—; mother—; present with—; produce—; promise—; rear—; transmit to —; yearn for—; —blossom; —burden; — comfort; —delight; —gather; —inherit; — torment.

Thesaurus

aftermath, artifact, bairn, brainchild, breed, brood, by-product, cherub, child, children, chit, coinage, composition, conclusion, concoction, consequence, consequent, corollary, creation, creature, crowning achievement, darling, daughter, derivation, derivative, descendant, descendants, descent, development, distillate, distillation, dynasty, effect, end product, essence, event, eventuality, eventuation, extract, family, folks, foster child, fruit, get, grandchild, grandchildren, granddaughter, grandson, great-grandchildren, handiwork, harvest, hatch, hearth, heir, heiress, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, inheritors, innocent, invention, issue, kid, kids, kitten, lamb, lambkin, legacy, line, lineage, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little ones, little tad, little tot, logical outcome, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, menage, mintage, mite, new generation, new mintage, nipper, offshoot, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, peewee, people, posterity, precipitate, produce, product, production, progeniture, progeny, result, resultant, rising generation, scion, seed, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, shaver, son, son and heir, sonny, sons, spawn, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, succession, successor, swarm, tad, tot, treasures, upshot, wee tot, work, young, younglings, youngster, youngsters

Etymology

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- +‎ spring. Compare Icelandic afspringr (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɒfsprɪŋ/, SAMPA: /"QfsprIN/
• (US) enPR: äfʹsprĭng, IPA: /ˈɑfsprɪŋ/, SAMPA: /"AfsprIN/

Translations

daughter or son

Armenian: զավակ (hy) (zavak) Bulgarian: потомък (bg) m. Croatian: pòtomak (hr) m. Czech: potomstvo (cs) n. Dutch: afstammmelingen pl., kinderen pl., nageslacht n., nakomelingschap n., nakomelingen pl., oir n. Finnish: jälkeläinen, jälkikasvu (collective noun) French: enfant (fr) m., enfants (fr) pl. German: Kinder (de) n. pl. Irish: clann (ga) f. pl. Italian: figlio (it) m.

Japanese: 胤 (ja) (tane) Korean: 자녀 (ko) Norwegian: avkom (no) n., barn (no) n. Polish: potomek (pl) m., potomstwo (pl) n. Portuguese: filho (pt) m. Russian: потомок (ru) (potómok) m., отпрыск (ru) (ótprysk) m. Santali: ᱜᱳᱱ (hon) Slovak: potomstvo (sk) n. Swedish: avkomling (sv) Taos: ȕ’úna Turkish: evlat (tr), çocuk (tr)

all descendants

Arabic: سلالة (ar) f. Chamicuro: pujchi Croatian: pòtōmstvo (hr) n. Czech: potomstvo (cs) n. Dutch: afstammmelingen pl., nageslacht n., nakomelingschap n., nakomelingen pl., oir n. Finnish: jälkeläinen (fi) German: Abkömmling (de) m.,Nachfahre (de) m.

Irish: clann (ga) f. pl. Italian: discendente (it) m. Norwegian: etterkommere (no) pl., etlinger (no) pl. Polish: potomstwo (pl) n. Russian: потомство (ru) (potómstvo) n. Santali: ᱜᱳᱱ (hon) Swedish: avkomling (sv)

other produce

Dutch: voortbrengst, productie

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Bulgarian: поколение,потомство n French: descendance, enfance, enfants pl., postérité, progéniture German: Nachwuchs m. Old English: ofspring, tēam Portuguese: descendente Scottish Gaelic: àl m, clann m, sìolach m, sìoladh m, sìolradh m, sliochd m. Telugu: సంతానం (saMtaanaM)