Definitions for DESCENDANTS
de·scen·dants

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1. descendants, posteritynoun

   all of the offspring of a given progenitor

   "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

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1. descendants

   Descendants are individuals who are directly related to a certain person or group and come after them in lineage or genealogy. This includes children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on. Descendants can also refer to products, outcomes or developments that have evolved from a particular entity or idea.

Matched Categories

1. • Biological Group

How to pronounce DESCENDANTS?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say DESCENDANTS in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DESCENDANTS in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DESCENDANTS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of DESCENDANTS in a Sentence

1. Thomas Paine:

   This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

2. Franklin Thomas:

   One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

3. Karsonya Wise Whitehead:

   When I was in Kenya, the guy who took my bag (at the airport) was Black. The guy who flew the plane was Black. The president was Black, as a Black person from an African country, you haven’t seen the long history of oppression, the long history of social injustice that those of us who were born here, who are descendants of enslaved people, have seen.

4. Lia Rensin:

   You've got this fundamental theory that the United States has notchanged at all in 250-plus years, that we are still white supremacists because we are descendants of our forefathers, and then you have violence ... as the means of change, ...It's very clearly indoctrination, and because of that, they're completely subverting the parental role.

5. Xu Xing:

   It's a failed experiment, it's an evolutionary dead end, over the last 30 years, there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs.

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References

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