Synonyms:
offspring, progeny, issue
Meaning: the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
Synonyms:
offspring, materialization, materialisation
Meaning: something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
Usage examples
Now open the habitation of the offspring.
Mrs. Micawber and our offspring will accompany me.
But this would make me heartless towards my undoubted offspring.
No mother could watch over her offspring more tenderly than I watch over me, and--"
At length, when October ends, she clutches her offspring's nursery and dies withered.
An unworthy doubt of her--the mean offspring of jealousy--found its way into my mind.
Reassured, he soon persuaded himself that the spectre in this case had been the offspring of his own terror-haunted brain.
Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas? Greek is the offspring of the Sanscrit.
There are other Ichneumon-flies, moreover, addicted to robbing Spiders' nests; a basket of fresh eggs is their offspring's regular food.
He controlled nature as a fertilizing agency; he caused grass, trees, and crops to grow; he increased flocks and herds, and gave human offspring.