descendant
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3.4
- noun
- /dɪˈsɛndənt/
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descendiente
- Everybody in this country who's white is here because they were descendants of immigrants.
- a direct descendant
- descendants of immigrants
- descendants of slaves
Therefore choose life that you and your descendants might live.
- Therefore choose life that you and your descendants might live.
- And today they're trying to find descendants of that family.
- Black Americans, former slaves and their descendants, lived amidst ambiguity.
- And unlike the Brits, we are not, in fact, all descendants of King Arthur.
- And now their descendants are the majority of the Jews in Israel.
- That's their estimate of how much it will take to make descendants of enslaved people whole.
- Everybody in this country who's white is here because they were descendants of immigrants.
- And then Cain's descendants are the first people who make weapons of war.
- The Crimean Hanat is ruled by Princess who are direct successors, direct descendants of Genghis Hahn.
- How do we become great ancestors to our future descendants?
- A lineage is any individual and all of their descendants.
- Or just that you don't want to pick one of these three or their future descendants and variants?
Examples
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The majority of refugees and their descendants listed with UNRWA currently live in Jordan.
Academic text (2013) -
The gardener is proud of the many descendants he has grown from the original rose bush.
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I want to ensure that there are no descendants before me in this list.
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Therefore choose life that you and your descendants might live.
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And now their descendants are the majority of the Jews in Israel.
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My father's a direct descendant.
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And today they're trying to find descendants of that family.
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Jeff is a descendant of the logician Bool.
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"Although I am now destitute, I am of noble birth, a descendant of Mexica kings.
Fiction book (1996) -
He and his descendants slowly became more Chinese than Mongol.
Synonyms
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7.3
Children or other family members who come from a person
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4.6
A person who comes from a particular ancestor
Children and later family members of a person or animal
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word descendant comes from the Latin descendere, made of de- 'down' and scendere 'to climb'. So a descendant is someone who 'comes down' from an ancestor, like a child or grandchild.