progeny
/ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny."
- "I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny."
- "One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so."
- "Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?"
- "His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date."
Etymology
From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *per-, progenie, prōgeniēs
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/
- British English: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/