progeny
progeny is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acrospire
- bantling
- block
- branch
- breed
- brood
- child
- chip
- daughter
- descendant
- descent
- fall
- family
- far
- farrow
- father
- filial
- filiation
- from
- fruit
- generation
- great-grandchild
- heir
- heiress
- heredity
- issue
- like
- line
- lineage
- litter
- man
- off
- offspring
- old
- plumule
- posterity
- presumptive
- primogeniture
- ramification
- rising
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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