Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity.
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释义 | society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively (36) bairn-teamc885 Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity. kinc950 The family or descendants of a specified ancestor; offspring, progeny, posterity; = kind, n. 11a, kindred, n. 3c. Obsolete. 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. offspringOE The progeny which springs or is descended from someone; a person's or couple's children or descendants collectively (or occasionally individually)… kindOE Progeny, offspring, descendants. Also as a count noun: an offspring, a child. Cf. kin, n.1 1b, kindred, n. 3c. rare after 16th cent. (Scottish in… childrenc1175 In plural. Esp. in biblical and derived uses: descendants; members of the tribe or clan. lineage1303 quasi-concrete. (Chiefly collective) The descendants of a specified ancestor. †Also rarely applied to an individual descendant. generationa1325 Descendants; = posterity, n. 1. Obsolete. issuea1325 Offspring, children, descendants (also occasionally with singular reference). Also occasionally with reference to animals. Also figurative. Now… successiona1340 Successors, heirs, or descendants collectively; progeny, issue. Obsolete. kindredc1350 The offspring, progeny, or descendants of a specified ancestor; = kin, n.1 1b, kind, n. 11a. progenya1382 A race, stock, or line descended from a common ancestor; a family, clan, or tribe. Obsolete. posterityc1410 The descendants collectively of any person (or, in extended use, any living thing); all who are descended from a common ancestor. Also figurative… sequelc1440 Descendants, posterity; successors in inheritance. Also plural. Obsolete. ligneea1450 = lineage, n. (Frequently in Caxton.) posterior1509 A descendant. Usually in plural. Obsolete. genealogy1513 Progeny, offspring. Obsolete. propagation1536 That which is produced by propagation or reproduction; offspring; a breed, a race, a generation. Also in extended use. Now rare. racea1547 A group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ancestor; a house, family, kindred. Cf. kin, n.1 1a. postery1548 = posterity, n. after-spring1583 The descendants of any person considered collectively; progeny, issue. Cf. offspring, n. 1a. Obsolete. bowela1593 Offspring, children. Obsolete. afterworld1594 A future state of existence; a later generation; the world of the future; future generations considered collectively; posterity. Now rare. loin1608 In the living body. Chiefly plural. The part or parts of a human being or quadruped, situated on both sides of the vertebral column, between the… descendance1617 Descendants considered collectively. Obsolete. succession1618 Posterity. Obsolete. proles1640 Progeny, offspring. Also figurative. descent1667 A descendant (literal and figurative). Also: descendants collectively, offspring, issue. Obsolete. ramage1936 Cultural Anthropology. In Polynesian ethnography: a cognatic descent group; a system of ranked descent groups. Subcategories:— at each stage of descent (6) |
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