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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

  1. noun A group of young animals, especially birds, hatched or raised together.
  2. noun Informal term for the children of one family.
  3. verb Of a bird, to sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.
  4. verb To dwell unhappily on one's thoughts, often alone.

generation — full definition

  1. noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
  2. noun One step in a family's line of descent, roughly the time it takes children to grow up and have their own.
  3. noun The act or process of producing or bringing something into being.
  4. noun A particular stage in the development of a technology or product line.

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