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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.
1. One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group: a descendant of Queen Victoria; descendants of a prize-winning horse. 2. Something derived from a prototype or earlier form: Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede. 3.
DESCENDANT definition: someone who is related to someone who lived a long time ago: . 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.
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.
