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noun
- 1. a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor: "she's a descendant of Charles Darwin"
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a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild: He has no descendants. descendant of They claim to be descendants of a French duke. We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in. Compare. ancestor.
1. : one originating or coming from an ancestral stock or source : one descended from another. descendants of King David. a descendant of an ancient grass. 2. : one deriving directly from a precursor or prototype. Italian and other descendants of Latin. Synonyms. Adjective. bowed. bowing.
noun. a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring. something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form. an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple. Astrology.
The word descendant refers to something that has come down. For example, everyone is a descendant, or the end of a line of ancestors, just as modern art is a descendant of past art that contributed to its style and technique.
Define descendant. descendant synonyms, descendant pronunciation, descendant translation, English dictionary definition of descendant. a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring: a descendant of the early settlers Not to be confused with: decedent – a dead...
a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild: He has no descendants. descendant of They claim to be descendants of a French duke. We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in. Compare. ancestor.
descendant in British English. (dɪˈsɛndənt ) noun. 1. a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc. 2. something that derives or is descended from an earlier form. adjective. 3. a variant spelling of descendent.
A person who is an offspring, however remote, of a certain ancestor, family, group, etc. Something that derives from an earlier form. In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that sets in the west at the time of a person's birth or other event.
Definitions of descendent. noun. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race. synonyms: descendant. see more. adjective. going or coming down. synonyms: descendant.
descendant. noun. /dɪˈsendənt/. /dɪˈsendənt/. a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them. He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland. Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.
