Meaning

5 senses

  1. A person's daughter or son; a person's child.

    We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.

    the immediate descendants of a person

  2. Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.

    Abkömmlinge, Nachfahren, Nachfahrinnen

    пото́мствоpotómstvo

    пото́мствоpotómstvo, наща́дкиnaščádky

  3. An animal or plant's progeny or young.

    Nachwuchs

    пото́мствоpotómstvo

    any immature animal

  4. (figuratively)Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.

    Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.

    Hinterlassenschaft

    плідplid, ді́тищеdítyšče

  5. A process launched by another process.

Examples

37 sentences

  1. Parents can pass many diseases on to their offspring.

    ruРодители могут передать своему потомству множество заболеваний. — marafon

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  2. Rabbits have a lot of offspring.

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  3. An otter's offspring are called pups.

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  4. Organisms' varied offspring compete for survival.

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  5. What's stopping you from having offspring?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
singular offspring (male, female or sex unspecified):
plural or collective offspring (only males, only females, both sexes or sex unspecified):
something produced:
Русский
By meaning 2
singular offspring (male, female or sex unspecified):
plural or collective offspring (only males, only females, both sexes or sex unspecified):
Deutsch
By meaning 3
singular offspring (male, female or sex unspecified):
plural or collective offspring (only males, only females, both sexes or sex unspecified):
something produced:

Origin

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterit

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

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Forms

plural: offspring
Singularoffspring
Pluraloffspring

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

17 synonyms
daughter(s) and/or son(s):babyA1childA1issueA2getA1kidA1childrenfruit of one's loinsbabieskids
all descendants:seedA2binary clonelineageprogenydescendants
Close in meaning

Antonyms

9 antonyms
daughter(s) and/or son(s):genitorparentA1progenitorfatherA1motherA1
descendants:ancestorsforbearforebearforefather

Word family

4 related words
Deriveddonor offspringgrandoffspringoffspringlessparent-offspring conflict

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
offshoreB2offsideoftoftenA1oftentimes

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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