progeny
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Etymology
From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/
- (General American) enPR: prŏj'ə-nē, IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: prog‧e‧ny
Noun
progeny (countable and uncountable, plural progenies)
- (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
- 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 88:
- One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Descent, lineage, ancestry.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 109, column 1:
- 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 ?
- (countable, figurative) A result of a creative effort.
- His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
Synonyms
- (offspring): binary clone, descendant(s), fruit of one's loins, get, issue, lineage, offspring
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Translations
offspring
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