Word Meanings - PROGENY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROGENY)

• Descendant
• Offspring
• progeny
• stock
• scion
• seed
• branch
• issue
• house
• family
• lineage
• Generation
• Age
• period
• era
• epoch
• lifetime
• offspring
• race
• origination
• breed
• formation
• Issue
• Effect
• outcome
• manifestation
• end
• result
• posterity
• conclusion
• consequence
• upshot
• children
• Lineage
• Descent
• ancestry
• descendants

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROGENY)

• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to PROGENY)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• LIFETIME
  The time that life continues.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.