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offspring

Pronunciation: /ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/

The English word “offspring” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
  2. Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
  3. An animal or plant's progeny or young.
  4. Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
  5. A process launched by another process.

Etymology

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

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