offspring
/ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/US/ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/
offspring noun: a person's daughter or son; a person's child.
Noun
offspring (plural offspring or (computing, otherwise nonstandard) offsprings)
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- Synonyms:
- binary clone, descendants, fruit of one's loins, get, lineage, progeny, seed
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
- Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
- A process launched by another process.
offspring meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
offspring in Hindi
- singular offspring (male, female or sex unspecified)
- संतान santān
- plural or collective offspring (only males, only females, both sexes or sex unspecified)
- वंशज vañśaj, संतान santān
- singular offspring, animal's or plant's progeny
- वंशज vañśaj
- plural or collective offspring, animal's or plant's progeny
- वंशज vañśaj
offspring in Tamil
- offspring, issue, child
- பேறு pēṟu
offspring in Marathi
- संतती, संततीची
offspring in Urdu
- plural or collective offspring (only males, only females, both sexes or sex unspecified)
- اَوْلاد aulād, نَسل
More languagesFewer languages
- offspring in Bengali
- সন্তান śontan, সন্তানসমূহ sontansomuho, আওলাদ aōlad, ফরজন্দ forjond
- offspring in Telugu
- సంతానము santānamu
- offspring in Malayalam
- സന്തതി santati, കുഞ്ഞ് kuññŭ, കുട്ടി kuṭṭi, മകൻ makaṉ
- offspring in Kannada
- ಮಗು, ಮಕ್ಕಳು, ಪೀಳಿಗೆ, ಸಂತಾನ
- offspring in Punjabi
- ਔਲਾਦ aulād
- offspring in Gujarati
- ઓલાદ olād, ફરજંદ pharjand
- offspring in Odia
- ଫଳ phaḷa, ଜନିମା janimā
- offspring in Sanskrit
- तनस् tanas
- offspring in Tagalog
- kawil
- offspring in Arabic
- وَلَد walad, نِتاج nitāj, ذُرِّيَّة ḏurriyya, سُلَالَة sulāla
- offspring in Persian
- فرزند farzand, سلاله solâle, اولاد avlâd, نسل nasl
- offspring in Thai
- ลูกหลาน lûuk-lǎan
Examples of offspring in a sentence
- These may then accumulate in the gut or be passed to offspring through regurgitates.
- Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.
- More carnally, on his way to face Mot, Baʿal mates with a cow, engendering bull offspring.
Synonyms of offspring
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Antonyms
Forms of offspring
| plural | offspring |
|---|---|
| plural (nonstandard) | offsprings |
Origin of offspring
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
Words formed from offspring
Questions about offspring
- What does offspring mean?
- Offspring means a person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- What is offspring in Hindi?
- Offspring in Hindi is संतान (santān), वंशज (vañśaj). See Offspring meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is offspring?
- Offspring is a noun.
- How do you pronounce offspring?
- Offspring is pronounced /ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of offspring?
- The plural of offspring is offspring.
Words near offspring in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: offspring (page history and authors); பேறு (Tamil) (page history and authors); offspring (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); సంతానము (Telugu) (page history and authors); offspring (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਔਲਾਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ઓલાદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଜନିମା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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