Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person, animal, or plant whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group.
- n. Something derived from a prototype or earlier form: Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede.
- n. In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that sets in the west at the time of a person's birth or other event.
- adj. Variant of descendent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See descendent.
- n. An individual proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, near or remote.
- n. In astrology, the descending or western horizon or cusp of the seventh house. Synonyms See
offspring . - n. In geology, a topographic feature carved from the mass beneath an older topographic form which has been removed.
Wiktionary
- adj. That or who descends from a biological ancestor.
- adj. That or who proceeds from a figurative ancestor or source.
- n. literally One who is the progeny a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- n. figuratively A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- n. biology A later evolutionary type.
- n. linguistics A language that is descended from another.
- n. linguistics A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Descendent.
- n. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to
ancestor orascendant .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
- adj. going or coming down
- adj. proceeding by descent from an ancestor
Etymologies
- From Middle English dessendaunte, from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere ("to climb, ascend"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For those of you that are Black but not descendant from the Middle Passage, the everything for you lies in the simple fact that you are Black.”
“The inhabitants of Nanagada and Aztlan are descendant from the Caribbean, now occupying lands each side of the Wicked Highs that are cut off from each other except for the Mafolie Pass.”
“It is commonly associated in descendant languages of proto-Kaskazi, including Ruvu languages, with the idea of protecting with amulet medicine that created a defensive barrier against ill-intended sorcery or physical incursion. 146 In the colonial period, * - kinga medicine was instrumental in protecting Zaramo people from witchcraft.”
“In the proto-Ruvu era and in descendant Ruvu languages, particular words identified women who played a part in instructional and birthing needs.”
“John Fraser, is an accomplished descendant from the early days of journalists.”
“The author's revered mother was a descendant from the latter venerable name, united with that of the brave and erudite race of Adamson, of farther north.”
“David Alroy is represented as the last male descendant from the house of David, and the Prince of the Captivity among the eastern Jews in the twelfth century, resident at”
“Price above 20 SMA and CCI cutting to the upside 0.00 line confirm some upside movements in the next hours, thus pair needs to break above 95.60 short term descendant trend line to extend the upside movement just above 96.05 zone.”
“Above that level, next strong resistance zone will come at the 98.70 zone, a longer term descendant trend line.”
“It is a direct descendant from the “Uk” or “Wuk” (ounce) of the hieroglyphs (See Sharpe’s Egypt or any other Manual) and first appeared in Europe as the Greek {Greek}.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘descendant’.
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
morphism, preorder, diagram, vector, quiver, functor, ancestor, successor, parent, simple, source, embedding and 423 more...
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The story of a little ant
adamant, coolant, consonant, depressant, assailant, assistant, assonant, pant, rant, abundant, volant, anticipant and 7 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Webs
Words about relations.
novercal, phratry, stirps, spindle kin, kinnery, ashram, filiation, phratria, deme, apparentation, homology, spear kin and 41 more...
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It's All Relative
parent, child, sibling, mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousin and 22 more...
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Regular English
betterment, scrub, bogus, swarm, dissension, unwittingly, bitter, appropriate, bliss, attainment, descendant, runways and 4 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu Perhaps the ant's downward spiral into depression can be traced to genes inherited from its ant-cestors. Dec 29, 2009