| Main Entry: | progeny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offspring |
Synonyms: |
begats, breed, children, descendants, family, get*, issue, kids, lineage, posterity, progeniture, race, scions, seed, stock, young |
Antonyms: |
parent |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, class |
Synonyms: |
brand, character, extraction, family, feather, genus, ilk, likes, line, lineage, lot, nature, number, pedigree, progeny, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, stripe, type, variety |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of children |
Synonyms: |
begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young |
Antonyms: |
child |
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
Synonyms: |
adolescent, anklebiter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, shaver, small fry, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teen, teenager, teenybopper, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin, whippersnapper, young one, youngster, youth |
Antonyms: |
adult |
| Main Entry: | descendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in line of ancestry |
Synonyms: |
brood, child, children, chip off old block, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off |
Antonyms: |
ascendant, predecessor |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
Synonyms: |
ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, clan, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, group, heirs and assigns, house, household, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, ménage, network, parentage, pedigree, people, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, tribe |
| Main Entry: | flock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congregation |
Synonyms: |
army, assembly, bevy, brood, cloud, collection, colony, company, convoy, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, gaggle, gathering, group, herd, host, legion, litter, mass, multitude, pack, progeny, rout, scores, skein, throng |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
Synonyms: |
brood, descendants, get, heirs, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed |
Antonyms: |
parent |
| Main Entry: | lineage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
Synonyms: |
birth, blood, breed, clan, descendants, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, stirps, stock, succession, tribe |
| Notes: | linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent |
| Main Entry: | litter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal offspring |
Synonyms: |
brood, cubs, family, kittens, piglets, progeny, puppies, school, young |