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Definition: Progeny |
ProgenyNoun1. The immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "progeny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | PROGENY 1961. Report generator for UNIVAX SS90. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Medicine | The offspring produced in any generation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ProgenySynonyms: issue (n), offspring (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Posterity | Noun: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Progeny |
| English words defined with "progeny": Gymnophthalmata ♦ Issueless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "progeny": ANIMAL BREEDER, Antigens, CD13, Asa Loki ♦ estimated breeding value ♦ Germ-Line Mutation ♦ Iapetos, Inogene ♦ Multigene Family ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ PLANT BREEDER, PPN, production trait ♦ radon daughter, radon progeny ♦ sylph ♦ tortoise ♦ vegetative propagation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1992) | |
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 | Nearly every head of iceberg lettuce you'll find in a supermarket owes its parentage to the work of ARS plant breeders. Salinas iceberg lettuce and its progeny are the most widely planted iceberg lettuces in the Salinas Valley of California, the world's foremost lettuce-growing region. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Krazy Kat. Jose Chigueno, known to Angles & Saxons as Joe Stork, "purveyor of progeny to prince & proletarian", on his way from the "Enchanted Mesa" ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | The amplification of infection within the CNS occurs through cycles of viral replication and cell-to-cell transfer of progeny virus. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | The verdict of our voters which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection's sake enjoins upon the people's servants the duty of exposing and destroying the brood of kindred evils which are the unwholesome progeny of paternalism. |
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| "Progeny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Progeny" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 123 | 28,925 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
progeny | 52 |
press progeny | 19 |
innovation marketing progeny | 11 |
marketing progeny | 10 |
progeny radon | 4 |
progeny system | 3 |
expected progeny difference | 3 |
prague pregnant progeny pump skirt up | 2 |
progeny software | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "progeny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pinjoll (sucker), stërnipër, skotë, fëmijë (bairn, child, chit, infant, kid, little one, moppet, tad, youngster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نتيجة (conclusion, consequence, echo, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, outcome, payoff, precipitate, product, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, sequel, termination, upshot, work), نسل (breed, children, generation, lineage, offspring, parentage, posterity, procreate, ravel, seed, spawn), سلالة (ancestry, blood, descent, genealogy, line, offspring, parentage, race, stock, strain), ذرية (breed, generation, increase, lineage, offspring, parentage, race, seed), أولاد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рожби, резултат (aftermath, conclusion, consequent, count, effect, end, event, harvest, issuance, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, produce, product, purpose, result, score, sequel), чеда, последица (after effect, backwash, consequence, effect, follow up, issue, offspring, outgrowth, ramification, repercussion, result, sequel, train, upshot), потомство (brood, generation, issue, offspring, posterity, seed, spawn), потомци (children). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 后" (Descendant, descendants, Descendent, lineage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | potomstvo (brood, descendants, offspring, posterity, seed), potomek (descendant, issue, offshoot, offspring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | afkom (breed, brood, descendants, hatch, offspring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nageslacht (issue, offspring, posterity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | posteuloj (issue, offspring, posterity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرزند (Bairn, Breed, Child, Fruit, Fry, Get, Offspring, Scion), سلاله , اولاد (Breed, Issue, Offspring, Posterity, Seed, Slip), اخلاف (Posterity, Successor), دودمان (Ancestry, Antecedent, Dynasty, Genealogy, Lineage, Pedigree, Phylum, Stem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jälkeläiset (descendants, offspring), jälkeläinen (child, descendant, offspring, successor, young). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | descendants. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachkommenschaft (descendants, descent, issue, offspring, posterity), Frucht (crop, crops, fetus, fruit, harvest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόγονοι (posterity), απόγονος (descendant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תרבית (breeding, culture, increase), עשתרות, צאצאים (offspring, seed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utód (child, chip, descendant, issue, posteriors, successor), származék (derivative), leszármazott (descendant, direct descendant, offspring, scion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | progenie (race, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogenypray progenitura (descendants, offspring), descendência (ancestry, birth, brood, filiation, seed, spawn, strain, succession). (various references) progeniturã (issue, offspring, seed, spawn), prãsilã (breed, reproduction), rezultat (child, conclusion, effect, end, event, fruit, issue, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, product, result, resume, sum, upshot), elevi. (various references) потомство (posterity). (various references) l (brood, generation). (various references) potomstvo (issue, posterity). (various references) progenie (brood). (various references) avkomma (brood, issue, offspring, off-spring, seed). (various references) soy (ancestor, ancestors, ancestry, birth, breed, cion, extraction, family, flesh and blood, genealogy, lineage, noble, offshoot, parentage, pedigree, phylo-, posterity, race, stirpes, stirps, stock, strain), kuşak (belt, binder, cincture, cummerbund, generation, girdle, loins, sash, swathe, waistband, zone), evlatlar (children), döl (fruit, offspring, progeniture, race, seed, semen, spawn), ürün (child, crop, end product, fruit, graduate, growth, harvest, offspring, produce, product, result, turnoff, yield). (various references) результат (conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, development, eduction, effect, end, issue, offspring, omnium, outcome, outgrowth, output, produce, product, purpose, ramification, result, subsequence, termination, upshot), вторинна частка (offspring), наслідок (after effect, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, effect, event, heritage, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, produce, sequel, sequence), послідовники (following), потомство (generation, posterity, young ones), потомок (offset). (various references) con cháu (descendant, offspring, posterity, progeniture, spawn), con cái (offspring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | numun. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | foetus, genimina, genimine, progenie, progeniem, progenies, proles, subole, subolem, suboles. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | cithra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Progeny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pogey, pomganny, priggery, prodgeny, Progen, progency, progenie, progidy, proginy, progna, progny, proguanil, Proguanin, projeny, Proment, provenly, prowen, pyrogenic, pyrogens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "progeny" (pronounced prÄ"junē) |
| 5 | -Ä" j u n ē | homogeny, ontogeny, phylogeny. |
| 4 | -j u n ē | aborigine, misogyny, polygyny. |
| 3 | -u n ē | accompany, agony, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, intercompany, intracompany, irony, larceny, litany, mahogany, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, paleobotany, Peony, polyphony, Saxony, scrutiny, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pyrogen. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: eryngo, groyne, pyrone. | |
-2 letters: genro, goner, grope, gyron, onery, pengo, peony, pogey, porgy, porny, prone, prong, ropey. | |
-3 letters: ergo, goer, gone, gore, gorp, gory, grey, gyre, gyro, nope, ogre, open, orgy, oyer, peon, pogy, pone, pong, pony, pore, porn, prey, prog, pyre, repo, rope, ropy, yore. | |
-4 letters: ego, eng, eon, erg, ern, gen, gey. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: pyrogens. | |
+2 letters: gynophore, gyroplane, pyrogenic, recopying. | |
+3 letters: epeirogeny, granophyre, gymnosperm, gynophores, gyroplanes, nephrology, overhyping, overpaying, overplying, perigynous, phrenology, renography, venography. | |
+4 letters: copyreading, cryptogenic, deploringly, ethnography, granophyres, gymnosperms, gymnospermy, necropsying, overplaying, potteringly, prophesying, proselyting, redeploying, reemploying, reoccupying, reprovingly, scenography, stenography, trypsinogen. | |
+5 letters: glycoprotein, laryngoscope, oceanography, oropharynges, personifying, polymerising, polymerizing, premodifying, prenotifying, preoccupying, proteoglycan, pyrogenicity, stereotyping, trypsinogens. | |
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