Meaning

6 senses
  1. One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

    Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan

    The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.

    Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Deszendent

    пото́мокpotómok

    наща́докnaščádok, пото́мокpotómok

  2. (figuratively)A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.

    This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.

    Ableger, Abschrift

  3. A later evolutionary type.

    Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.

    Abkömmling

    пото́мокpotómok

    наща́докnaščádok

  4. A language that is descended from another.

    English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.

    a person considered as descended from some ancestor

  5. A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.

  6. The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.

Examples

33 sentences
  1. What will our descendants be like?

  2. He has no descendants, he's likely sterile.

  3. She was the youngest descendant of the king.

    ruОна была самой младшей из потомков короля. — astru

  4. Dogs are believed to be descendants of wolves.

    ruСчитается, что собаки - это потомки волков. — soweli_Elepanto

    deDer Hund stamme, so glaubt man, vom Wolfe ab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. The settlers were descendants of the surviving crew.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who is the progeny of someone:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who is the progeny of someone:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who is the progeny of someone:
which derives directly from a given precursor or source:

Origin

From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, pres

From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).

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Forms

plural: descendants
Singulardescendant
Pluraldescendants

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
offspringC1reflexderivativescionand see Thesaurus:child & relative
offspring:afterbear
Close in meaning
  • a person considered as descended from some ancestor:descendent

Antonyms

7 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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