Progeny

/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/ noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Offspring or descendants considered as a group. uncountable

    "I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny."

  2. 2
    the immediate descendants of a person wordnet
  3. 3
    Descent, lineage, ancestry. obsolete, uncountable

    "Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?"

  4. 4
    A result of a creative effort. countable, figuratively

    "His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date."

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issueoffspringborn ofbreedbroodchild

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""But we, thy progeny, to whom alone / thy nod hath promised a celestial throne, / our vessels lost, from Italy are barred, / o shame! and ruined for the wrath of one. / Thus, thus dost thou thy plighted word regard, / our sceptred realms restore, our piety reward?""

Etymology

From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).

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