The difference between Child and Progeny

When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas progeny means offspring or descendants considered as a group.

check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Progeny

  1. Child as a noun:

    A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

    Examples:

    "Go easy on him: he is but a child."

  2. Child as a noun:

    a female child, a girl.

  3. Child as a noun:

    One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

    Examples:

    "My youngest child is forty-three."

  4. Child as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirteenth Lenormand card.

  5. Child as a noun (computing):

    A figurative offspring, particularly: A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. Anything derived from or caused by something. A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.

    Examples:

    "The children of Israel."

    "He is a child of his times."

    "Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."

    "The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node."

  1. Progeny as a noun (uncountable):

    Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

    Examples:

    "I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny."

  2. Progeny as a noun (uncountable, obsolete):

    Descent, lineage, ancestry.

  3. Progeny as a noun (countable):

    A result of a creative effort.

    Examples:

    "His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date."

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