Synonyms for offspring
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Kid — A person's daughter or son; a person's child
child, issue, baby, babby US, kid, kind, fruit dated, get dated
2. Progeny — any of a person's descendants, including of further generations
progeny, descendant US, descendent UK, lineage, posterity, binary clone
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.
- n. 2
Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
Related words
- Word family
- offspringless
Example sentences
- descendant I am a descendant of Charlemagne. And so are you.
- progeny We're laying the groundwork of a better future for ourselves and our progeny.
- brood A brood mare is a female horse used for breeding.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| offspring | rising | |
| descendant | steady | |
| progeny | falling | |
| brood | falling | |
| materialization | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- get1, kid1
- 4 letters
- kind1, baby2
- 5 letters
- young1, child1, issue2, fruit1, brood1, babby
- 7 letters
- lineage3, progeny3
- 9 letters
- posterity4
- 10 letters
- descendant3, descendent3
- 15 letters
- materialization, materialisation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (baby2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- descendance
- Italiano
- discendenza
- Español
- descendencia
- Deutsch
- Nachwuchs
- Català
- descendència