пото́мство — meaning in English
potomstvo
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English meaning
- brood noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
- generation noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
- issue noun A subject or problem that people discuss or disagree about.
- offspring noun A person's child, or an animal's or plant's young.
- posterity noun Future generations, especially someone's descendants.
- progeny noun Offspring or descendants, considered together.
- spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.
Senses
пото́мство is used for these senses in English:
- brood (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- generation A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- issue The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- issue (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- offspring An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- posterity All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
- progeny (uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- spawn Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
brood — full definition
- noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
- noun Informal term for the children of one family.
- verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
- verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.
generation — full definition
- noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
- noun One step in a family's line of descent, roughly the time it takes children to grow up and have their own.
- noun The act or process of producing or bringing something into being.
- noun A particular stage in the development of a technology or product line.