DESCENDANT


Meaning of DESCENDANT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪsendənt ]

( descendants)

1.

Someone’s descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.

They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.

≠ ancestor

N-COUNT : usu pl , usu with poss

2.

Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it.

His design was a descendant of a 1956 device...

≠ ancestor

N-COUNT : usu N of n

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