Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One born of, begotten by, or derived from another; an offspring or a descendant.
- n. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- n. A result of creative effort; a product.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Descent; lineage; family; ancestry.
- n. Children; offspring, whether of the human kind or of the lower animals; descendants.
- n. Synonyms Issue, Posterity, etc. See offspring.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable offspring or descendants.
- n. countable result of a creative effort
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the immediate descendants of a person
Etymologies
- From Old French progenie, from Latin progenies. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English progeni, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignere, to beget; see progenitor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At least one parent should be a U.S. citizen before the progeny is eligible would be my opinion.”
“The New York Times in July reported that a handful of breeders in Switzerland, Britain and possibly other countries have imported semen and embryos from cloned animals or their progeny from the United States, seeking to create more consistently plump and productive livestock.”
“It looks as if the answer you will get is that if an engineer designs an object that is self maintaining, able to supply its own energy needs and has reproductive and information storage capacity, then one will get a succession of progeny from the initial design.”
“My opinion of Severus and his progeny is that they were active contributors to every problem that afflicted the long-suffering people of the empire.”
“It describes a celebration to honour famous progeny from the dust bowl province.”
“I suspect the scrofula, and consumption, to arise in the young progeny from the debility of the lymphatic and venous absorption produced in the parent by this innutritious fossile stimulus.”
“a viviparous offspring without sexual intercourse for nine or ten successive generations; and then the progeny is both male and female, which cohabit, and from these new females are produced eggs, which endure the winter; the same process probably occurs in many other insects.p. The potent wish in the productive hour”
“It's attracted praise from every quarter: from tabloids like The Daily Mail ( "an impressive debut for such a young performer") and People "insanely catchy ... a stunning, high-octane production that leaves little doubt that this precocious Hollywood progeny is the real deal" to typically snotty sites like Gawker ( "And, honestly?”
The Huffington Post: Vanessa Richmond: Willow Smith and America's Dirty Little Fame Secret
“Dáa al-Fíl (Elephantine Evil), i.e. Elephantiasis and that the days between the beginning of the flow (Sabíl) to that of coition shows the age when the progeny will be attacked; for instance if it take place on the first day, the disease will appear in the tenth year, on the fourth the fortieth and so on.”
“Things have not been going so well on the political front for the advocates of intelligent design a k a the progeny of creationism.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘progeny’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words starting with PRO
I've noticed many, many words start with PRO and this is just a collection of them.
professional, pronunciation, Prolagus, probable, prog, proximity, profit, procrastincate, prom, pronoun, promise, proactive and 206 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Curiosities
A Potpourri
progeny, ooh, meow, endearing, timepiece, touch of the crea..., meh, alarmist, taut, calligraphic, catchphrase, shinto and 6 more...
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Pound
Words found in the works of Ezra Pound
Pavlova, garret, skein, rabble, rillet, ungainly, progeny, stodgy, Cybele, procurer, profundity, magnanimous and 1 more...
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akin
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“that which produces,â€
(Origin:
F -gène
Gk. genés 'born, produced';
L. genus, 'kin')mutagen, mutagenesis, pathogen, pathogenesis, progeny, mitogen, parthenogenesis, transgene, mucinogen, myogenic, autogenic, endogenous and 83 more...
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List 2(starting at 260)
mammoth, overt, valor, aspire, relegate, bias, incisive, scurry, precipitate, singular, inveigh, repulse and 48 more...
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Nouny
calumny, parsimony, gluttony, alimony, sanctimony, harmony, miscegeny, telephony, colony, antimony, larceny, mahogany and 26 more...
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rare words that might be useful
transmogrify, fastidiousness, interiority, indecorous, procrustean, vociferous, descry, solecism, apogee, progeny, envisage, anteroom and 3 more...
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Dinosaurs, extended
At first, this was a list for things found in Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky. But now it's degenerated a bit to contain anything dinosaur or fossil related.
disarticulate, body fossil, trace fossil, apatite, soft anatomy, permineralization, replacement, articulated, disarticulated, intestine’s-eye view, ichnofossil, paleoenvironment and 270 more...
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Advanced Words: Part II
facetious, felicitous, grandiloquent, germane, repatriate, exigency, exculpate, etheral, fatuous, heterogeneous, hiatus, idiosyncrasy and 118 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for progeny.

uselessness Ulysses Everett McGill may well be the best-dialogued character of our time. Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear "... but it does put me in an awkward position vis-a-vis my progeny!" (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) Oct 12, 2007