Offspring
['ɒfsprɪŋ] or ['ɔfsprɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) something that comes into existence as a result; 'industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring'; 'this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts'.
(noun.) the immediate descendants of a person; 'she was the mother of many offspring'; 'he died without issue'.
Edited by Bryan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
(n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
(n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Editor: Lucius
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Issue, progeny, child or children, descendant or descendants, posterity.
Edited by Cathryn
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of your own offspring, denotes cheerfulness and the merry voices of neighbors and children. To see the offspring of domestic animals, denotes increase in prosperity.
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Examples
- Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The offspring nestled to the parent; that parent, feeling the endearment and hearing the appeal, gathered her closer still. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He saw Satan, and Sin his daughter, and Death their horrible offspring. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Pure species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition, yet when intercrossed they produce either few or no offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- At this period, the termination of an animal's love for its offspring,--the true affection of the human parent commences. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The attachment between them led to the ill-fated marriage, of which I was the offspring. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The effects on the offspring are either definite or in definite. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The three _colour processes_ is the name given to the new offspring of the inventors which reproduces by the camera the natural colours of objects. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And the time is not yet passed when we punish the offspring of illicit love, and visit vengeance unto the third and fourth generations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Lenore