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Nachwuchs — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • descendant noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
  • offspring noun A person's child, or an animal's or plant's young.
  • young adjective In an early stage of life; not yet old.

Senses

Nachwuchs is used for these senses in English:

  • descendant One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
  • offspring An animal or plant's progeny or young.
  • young (often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.

descendant — full definition

  1. noun A person related to someone who lived in an earlier generation, such as a child, grandchild, or later relative.
  2. noun Something that develops from, or is a later version of, an earlier thing.

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