"progeny" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-progeny.ogg [Australia] Forms: progenies [plural]
enPR: prŏj'ə-nē Etymology: From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*per-|*ǵenh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|progenie}} Middle English progenie, {{der|en|fro|progenie}} Old French progenie, {{der|en|la|prōgeniēs}} Latin prōgeniēs, {{m|la|prōgignō||beget}} prōgignō (“beget”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
  1. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group. Tags: uncountable Synonyms (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring Translations (offspring): نَسْل (nasl) (Arabic), سَلِيل (salīl) [masculine] (Arabic), ذُرِّيَّة (ḏurriyya) [feminine] (Arabic), սերունդ (serund) (Armenian), ժառանգներ (žaṙangner) [plural] (Armenian), հետնորդներ (hetnordner) [plural] (Armenian), আওলাদ (aōlad) (Bengali), ফরজন্দ (fôrzônd) (Bengali), потомство (potomstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), progènie [feminine] (Catalan), 後嗣 (Chinese Mandarin), 后嗣 (hòusì) (Chinese Mandarin), 後代 (Chinese Mandarin), 后代 (hòudài) (Chinese Mandarin), 子孫 (Chinese Mandarin), 子孙 (zǐsūn) (Chinese Mandarin), 後裔 (Chinese Mandarin), 后裔 (hòuyì) (Chinese Mandarin), potomstvo [neuter] (Czech), afkom [neuter] (Danish), nakomeling [masculine] (Dutch), afstammelingen [plural] (Dutch), idaro (Esperanto), jälkeläiset [plural] (Finnish), jälkikasvu (Finnish), descendant [masculine] (French), progéniture [feminine] (French), descendance [feminine] (French), descendente [feminine, masculine] (Galician), casta (Galician), Nachkommen [masculine, plural] (German), Nachfahren [masculine, plural] (German), Nachkommenschaft [feminine] (German), צאצא (tze'etza) [masculine] (Hebrew), leszármazott (Hungarian), sarj (Hungarian), ivadék (Hungarian), utód (Hungarian), afkvæmi [neuter] (Icelandic), afsprengi [neuter] (Icelandic), afkomandi [masculine] (Icelandic), clann [feminine] (Irish), progenie (Italian), 子孫 (shison) (alt: しそん) (Japanese), 子種 (kodane) (alt: こだね) (Japanese), 자손 (jason) (Korean), 후예 (huye) (Korean), prōlēs [feminine] (Latin), prōgeniēs [feminine] (Latin), സന്താനം (santānaṁ) (Malayalam), സന്തതി (santati) (Malayalam), കുഞ്ഞ് (kuññŭ) (Malayalam), aitanga (Maori), wana [class-2] (Ngazidja Comorian), avkom [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), avkom [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), نسل (nesl) (Ottoman Turkish), ذریت (zürriyet) (Ottoman Turkish), potomstwo [neuter] (Polish), progenitura [feminine] (Polish), progénie [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), progênie [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), descendência [feminine] (Portuguese), prole [feminine] (Portuguese), ਔਲਾਦ (aulād) [feminine] (Punjabi), пото́мство (potómstvo) [neuter] (Russian), пото́мок (potómok) [countable, masculine] (Russian), potomstvo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), descendiente [masculine] (Spanish), avkomma [common-gender] (Swedish), ättlingar [plural] (Swedish), kaapuhan (Tagalog), epil [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-progeny-en-noun-dIAjHS7r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 11 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 70 14 16 Disambiguation of 'offspring': 66 31 3 Disambiguation of 'offspring': 66 31 3
  2. (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry. Tags: obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Family
    Sense id: en-progeny-en-noun-xwuIDAhv Disambiguation of Family: 38 56 7
  3. (countable, figurative) A result of a creative effort. Tags: countable, figuratively Translations (result of a creative effort): изход (izhod) [masculine] (Bulgarian), резултат (rezultat) [masculine] (Bulgarian), saavutus (Finnish), aikaansaannos (Finnish), tuotos (Finnish), Werk [neuter] (German), Schaffen [neuter] (German), детище (detišče) [neuter] (Russian), плод (plod) [masculine] (Russian), resultat [neuter] (Swedish), alster [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-progeny-en-noun-wqT3b~UC Disambiguation of 'result of a creative effort': 1 2 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: progenitive, progenitor

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          "lang": "German",
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          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "tze'etza",
          "sense": "offspring",
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          "word": "צאצא"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "offspring",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "ivadék"
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        {
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "utód"
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          "_dis1": "66 31 3",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "offspring",
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          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "offspring",
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          "sense": "offspring",
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "clann"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "progenie"
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          "alt": "しそん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shison",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "子孫"
        },
        {
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          "alt": "こだね",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kodane",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "子種"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "66 31 3",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jason",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "자손"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "huye",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "후예"
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          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "santānaṁ",
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          "word": "സന്താനം"
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          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "santati",
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          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "kuññŭ",
          "sense": "offspring",
          "word": "കുഞ്ഞ്"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
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          "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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          "word": "نسل"
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          "sense": "offspring",
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          "word": "potomstwo"
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          "sense": "offspring",
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          "sense": "offspring",
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          "sense": "offspring",
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          "_dis1": "66 31 3",
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          "_dis1": "66 31 3",
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          "_dis1": "66 31 3",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "tuotos"
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        {
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          "sense": "result of a creative effort",
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            "neuter"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 97",
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          "sense": "result of a creative effort",
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          "_dis1": "1 2 97",
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          "sense": "result of a creative effort",
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    {
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "cmn",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "da",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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    {
      "code": "fr",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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      "word": "Nachkommen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "he",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "is",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "is",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "afkomandi"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "offspring",
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      "roman": "shison",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "子孫"
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      "alt": "こだね",
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      "roman": "kodane",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "子種"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "jason",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "자손"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "huye",
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      "word": "후예"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ml",
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      "sense": "offspring",
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      "code": "ml",
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      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "കുഞ്ഞ്"
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      ],
      "word": "wana"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "avkom"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "avkom"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "nesl",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "نسل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "zürriyet",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "ذریت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "potomstwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "progenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "progénie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "progênie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "descendência"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prole"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "aulād",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਔਲਾਦ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "potómstvo",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "пото́мство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "potómok",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пото́мок"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "potomstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "descendiente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "avkomma"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ättlingar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "word": "kaapuhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "offspring",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "epil"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izhod",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "изход"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "rezultat",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "резултат"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "word": "saavutus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "word": "aikaansaannos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "word": "tuotos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Werk"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Schaffen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "detišče",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "детище"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plod",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "плод"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "resultat"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "result of a creative effort",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "alster"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "progeny"
  ],
  "word": "progeny"
}

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