Meaning

  1. A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
  2. Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
  3. An animal or plant's progeny or young.
  4. (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
  5. A process launched by another process.

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

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