Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity.
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释义 | society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring (42) bairn-teamc885 Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity. childeOE A son or daughter (at any age); the offspring of human parents. Also as a form of address. tudderc897 Progeny, offspring. seedOE Offspring, progeny; (also) race, line, stock. Also figurative. Now archaic and literary. teamOE A person's or couple's children or descendants; offspring, progeny; (also) a line of descent, a family; stock. Cf. bairn-team, n. Obsolete. wastum971 transferred. Fruit (of the body, womb), offspring. offspringOE The progeny which springs or is descended from someone; a person's or couple's children or descendants collectively (or occasionally individually)… i-cundeOE Progeny, offspring, descendants. Also: a person's lineage or ancestry. Cf. kind, n. 11, 12a. fostera1175 Offspring, progeny. i-streonc1175 Offspring, progeny. strainc1175 Offspring, progeny: = i-streon, n. 2b. Also figurative. Obsolete exc. archaic. brooda1300 Progeny, offspring, young. Of human beings: family, children. (Now generally somewhat contemptuous.) begetc1300 Progeny, offspring. Formerly also: †a child (obsolete). barm-teamc1315 = bairn-team, n. issuea1325 Offspring, children, descendants (also occasionally with singular reference). Also occasionally with reference to animals. Also figurative. Now… progenyc1330 Offspring, issue, children; descendants. Occasionally: a child, a descendant; a family. fruit of the loinsa1340 Offspring, progeny. Also, an embryo, fœtus. Originally a Hebraism. Now rare, except in Biblical phraseology. More fully fruit of the body, fruit of… bowel1382 transferred. (Considered as the seat of the tender and sympathetic emotions, hence): Pity, compassion, feeling, ‘heart’. Chiefly plural, and now… young onec1384 a young person or animal, a youngster; (in plural) an animal's offspring (cf. sense B. 2). suita1387 Offspring, progeny. Obsolete. rare. engendrurea1400 Offspring, children; descendants. Also figurative. Obsolete. fruitinga1400 The action of fruit, v.; the process of bearing fruit. †In early use concrete: Offspring. geta1400 An offspring, a child; a descendant. Also: (as a mass noun or with uninflected plural) progeny, offspring. Now chiefly of animals (esp. stud animals). birth?a1425 With singular or plural agreement. The offspring of an animal born or hatched at one time; a litter, a brood. Also: a person's children… porturec1425 A child; progeny. progenityc1450 = progeny, n. (in various senses). bodyfauntc1460 (perhaps) offspring. generation1477 Offspring, children. Obsolete. fryc1480 Offspring, progeny, seed, young (of human beings); a man's children or family; rarely, a child. Now obsolete except as transferred from sense 3. enfantement1483 Offspring. infantment1483 Child-bearing; childbed, confinement. Also, Offspring. blood issue1535 †(a) a discharge of blood (obsolete); (b) a descendant related to one by birth; = issue, n. 5a. propagation1536 That which is produced by propagation or reproduction; offspring; a breed, a race, a generation. Also in extended use. Now rare. offspring1548 As a count noun (frequently in plural): a child or descendant. Now rare. race1549 Chiefly poetic. The offspring or posterity of a person; a set of children or descendants. Also in extended use. family?1552 A person's children, considered collectively. Also: the young of an animal. increase1552 Offspring, progeny, brood (of people or animals). Generally collective: also poetic, of an individual = Offspring, child. breed1574 Offspring; esp. The young brought forth at the same time viewed collectively; a family, litter. Obsolete (or dialect); now replaced by brood, n. Also… begetting1611 The action or process of bringing a child into existence by reproduction; the action or process of producing something; procreation, generation… sperm1641 Offspring, brood (of persons). Obsolete. rare. bed1832 transferred. As the place of procreation and child-birth; hence parental union, parentage; also birth, progeny. fruitage1850 transferred. Offspring. rare. |
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