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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. declined. declining. descending. drooping. droopy. hanging.
Descendant definition: a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.. See examples of DESCENDANT used in a sentence.
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.
4 meanings: 1. a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc 2. something that.... Click for more definitions.
noun. /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. Topics History c1, Family and relationships c1.
DESCENDANT meaning: 1 : someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past; 2 : a plant or animal that is related to a particular plant or animal that lived long ago
DESCENDANT definition: someone who is related to someone who lived a long time ago: . Learn more.
descendant meaning, definition, what is descendant: someone who is related to a person who l...: Learn more.
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.