Meaning of Progeny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
   uncountable
2. Descent, lineage, ancestry.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. A result of a creative effort.
   countable, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

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

“I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.”

“One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.”

“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 ?”

“His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.”

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