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descendant
[ dih-sen-duhnt ]
noun
- a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.
- something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form.
- an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple.
- Astrology.
- the point opposite the ascendant.
- the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac setting below the western horizon at the time of a birth or of an event.
- the cusp of the seventh house.
adjective
descendant
1/ ɪˈɛԻəԳ /
noun
- a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc
- something that derives or is descended from an earlier form
adjective
- a variant spelling of descendent
Descendant
2/ ɪˈɛԻəԳ /
noun
- astrology the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Ascendant
Word History and Origins
Origin of descendant1
Example Sentences
Black people in my family and community were, of course, descendants of the enslaved.
Göransson absorbed his dad’s passions and mutated them into a personal obsession with Metallica, an electric descendant of the blues, in the process becoming a guitar player proficient in everything from thrash metal to jazz.
A large part of the reason they could be identified as the king was some surviving descendants had been identified and their DNA could be compared to the skeleton.
A detective in the tradition of Benoit Blanc and other modern descendants of the Agatha Christie whodunnit, she knows she’s usually the smartest person in the room and has no time for idiocy.
In a February executive order, President Donald Trump said Afrikaners - descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century - could be admitted as refugees as they were "victims of unjust racial discrimination".
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