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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.
Jun 9, 2012 · 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.
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.
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.
n. 1. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc. 2. (Genetics) a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc. 3. something that derives or is descended from an earlier form. adj. a variant spelling of descendent. Descendant
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.
DESCENDANT definition: someone who is related to someone who lived a long time ago: . Learn more.
adjective. coming or going downwards; descending. deriving by descent, as from an ancestor. Discover More. Other Words From. un de·scend ent adjective. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of descendent 1. 1565–75; < Latin dēscendent- (stem of dēscendēns ), present participle of dēscendere. See descend, -ent. Discover More.
descendant. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Family de‧scen‧dant /dɪˈsendənt/ noun [ countable] 1 someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, group of people etc that existed in the past → ancestor somebody’s descendants/the descendants of somebody The coastal areas ...
