THESAURUS
brood
agonize, animal kingdom, be abstracted, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, blood, breed, carry, carry young, chew the cud, children, clan, class, clock, clutch, consider, contemplate, cover, debate, deliberate, deme, descendants, descent, despair, despond, digest, family, farrow, folk, folks, fret, fruit, fry, gens, gestate, get, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hatch, hearth, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, incubate, inheritors, introspect, issue, kids, kind, line, lineage, litter, little ones, matriclan, meditate, menage, mope, muse, muse on, muse over, nation, nest, new generation, offspring, order, patriclan, people, perpend, phratry, phyle, pine, plant kingdom, play around with, play with, ponder, ponder over, posterity, pout, progeniture, progeny, race, reflect, rising generation, ruminate, ruminate over, seed, sept, set, sit, sons, spat, spawn, species, speculate, stem, stirps, stock, strain, study, succession, sulk, totem, toy with, treasures, tribe, weigh, worry, young, younglings, youngsters
ROGET THESAURUS
brood
Multitude
N
multitude, numerous, numerosity, numerality, multiplicity, profusion, legion, host, great number, large number, round number, enormous number, a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy, scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive,
brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest, crowd, lots, all in the world and his wife, greater number, majority, multiplication, multiple, many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few, Briarean, a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one, some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty, half a dozen, half a hundred, very many, full many, ever so many, numerous, numerose, profuse, in profusion, manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded, galore, thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of, no end of, no end to, cum multis aliis, thick as hops, thick as hail, plenty as blackberries, numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head, and what not, and heaven knows what, endless, their name is 'legion', acervatim, en foule, many- headed multitude, numerous as glittering gems of morning dew, vel prece vel pretio.
Posterity
N
posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring,
brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.