descendant

  • 11descendant — [dē sen′dənt, disen′dənt] adj. [ME descendaunt < OFr descendant < L descendens, prp. of descendere: see DESCEND] descending: also descendent n. 1. a person who is an offspring, however remote, of a certain ancestor, family, group, etc. 2.… …

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  • 12Descendant —   [engl.], Abkömmling …

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  • 13descendant — DESCENDANT, ANTE. Terme d Anatomie. Qui descend. Aortedescendante. [b]f♛/b] En termes d Astronomie, on appelle Signes ascendans, les Signes du Zodiaque par lesquels le Soleil paroît monter; et Signes descendans, Ceux par lesquels il paroît… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • 14descendant — *offspring, young, progeny, issue, posterity …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 15descendant — [n] person in line of ancestry brood, child, children, chip off old block*, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed, spin off*; concepts 296,414 Ant. ascendant, predecessor …

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  • 16descendant — Descendant, [descend]ante. adj. Qui descend. On divise les douze signes du Zodiaque en signes ascendants & signes descendants. il y a au ciel des signes ascendants & des signes descendants. Il sign. fig. Qui est issu, qui tire son origine d une… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 17descendant — ► NOUN ▪ a person, animal, etc. that is descended from a particular ancestor …

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  • 18descendant */ — UK [dɪˈsendənt] / US noun [countable] Word forms descendant : singular descendant plural descendants a relative of a person who lived in the past a descendant of a famous Italian painter direct descendant: He claims to be a direct descendant of… …

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  • 19descendant — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ direct, lineal ▪ Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language ▪ immediate ▪ distant ▪ He was an O Conor and a distant desc …

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  • 20descendant — de|scen|dant [dıˈsendənt] n 1.) someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, group of people etc that existed in the past →↑ancestor sb s descendants/the descendants of sb ▪ The coastal areas were occupied by the… …

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