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. Christopher Cardozo:

   The work is being used actively by Native people to help them rediscover who they are, what their language was, what their customs and rituals were, in many cases, the descendants of people who Curtis photographed have no photographs of them. If you think of what conditions were like in 1900, even if they were given photographs -- which often happened -- they've been lost or destroyed. I am finding that the Native people, overwhelmingly, really appreciate what Curtis and their ancestors did together.

2. David Faigman:

   We never shied away from that history, or I never did, and I wanted to confront it, and then the question was,' What to do about it ?' And that went to the recommendations to identify initiatives to reconcile and restore justice with the descendants who feel the historical trauma and pain of what their ancestors suffered.

3. Judy Garland:

   It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

4. Rue Simmons:

   It is a $25,000 direct benefit to build wealth through home equity, black Residents that lived in Evanston during the period of harm, which was 1919 - 1969, or their direct descendants are eligible.

5. Onita Estes-Hicks:

   Those were some very serious statements of remembrance and contrition, i could see a lot of the descendants were in tears. This is all new territory. It's moving something around in American history, in family history and in ourselves.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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