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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.
Descendant definition: a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.. See examples of DESCENDANT used in a sentence.
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.
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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 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.
DESCENDANT definition: someone who is related to someone who lived a long time ago: . Learn more.
a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.
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