offspring
Plural: offspring, offsprings
Noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- "she was the mother of many offspring"
- something that comes into existence as a result
- "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"
- any immature animal
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- A process launched by another process.
Examples
- Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
Synonyms
issue, materialisation, materialization, progeny, young, babies, baby, binary clone, child, children, descendants, fruit of one's loins, get, kid, kids, lineage, seed
Antonyms
ancestors, father, forbear, forebear, forefather, genitor, mother, parent, progenitor
Scrabble Score: 18
offspring: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordoffspring: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
offspring: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary