Descendant - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |dɪˈsendənt|  American pronunciation of the word descendant
Brit.  |dɪˈsend(ə)nt|  British pronunciation of the word descendant

noun

- a person considered as descended from some ancestor (syn: descendent)

adjective

- going or coming down (syn: descendent)
- proceeding by descent from an ancestor (syn: descendent)

Extra examples

...the descendant branches of a weeping willow...

One of the famous inventor's descendants is also an inventor.

Many people in this area are descendants of German immigrants.

Recent evidence supports the theory that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs.

The Italian language is one of Latin's descendants.

...as the highbred descendant of one of the state's oldest families, he bristled at being ordered about by an uncouth upstart...

She claimed to be a direct descendant of Wordsworth.

Word forms

noun
singular: descendant
plural: descendants
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