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1. (n.) descendant
a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.
2. descendant
something deriving in appearance, function, or character from an earlier form.
3. descendant
the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac setting below the western horizon at the time of a birth or an event.
Etymology: (1425–75; < OF descendant, prp. of descendre. See descend , -ant)
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| Definition of 'descendant' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) descendant, descendent
a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
2. (adj) descendant, descendent
going or coming down
3. (adj) descendant, descendent
proceeding by descent from an ancestor
"descendent gene"
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1. (noun) descendant
a relative of sb who lived long ago
descendants of the Incas
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| Definition of 'descendant' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) descendant
descendent
2. (noun) descendant
one who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant
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Sense: the child, grandchild, great-grandchild etc of a person
This is a photograph of my grandmother with all her descendants.
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 Afrikaans: afstammeling, spruit |
 Arabic: ذُرِّيَّه، نَسْل |
 Bulgarian: потомък |
 Brazilian: descendente |
 Czech: potomek |
 German: der Nachkomme |
 Danish: efterkommer |
 Greek: απόγονος |
 Spanish: descendiente |
 Estonian: järglane |
 Farsi: نواده؛ نوه و نتیجه |
 Finnish: jälkeläinen |
 French: descendant/-ante |
 Hebrew: צְאֵצָא |
 Hindi: वंशज |
 Croatian: potomak |
 Hungarian: leszármazott |
 Indonesian: keturunan |
 Icelandic: afkomandi |
 Italian: discendente |
 Japanese: 子孫 |
 Korean: 자손 |
 Lithuanian: palikuonis |
 Latvian: pēcnācējs |
 Malay: keturunan |
 Dutch: afstammeling |
 Norwegian: etterkommer |
 Polish: potomek |
 Persian: نواده؛ نوه و نتیجه |
 Pashto: زوزات، اولاد |
 Portuguese: descendente |
 Romanian: descendent, urmaş |
 Russian: потомок |
 Slovak: potomok |
 Slovenian: potomec |
 Serbian: potomak |
 Swedish: ättling |
 Thai: ลูกหลาน |
 Turkish: soyundan gelen kimse |
 Taiwanese: 後裔，子孫 |
 Ukrainian: нащадок |
 Urdu: کوئی شخص یا شے جس کا کسی |
 Vietnamese: con cháu |
 Chinese: 后裔，子孙 |
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