descendant

Speech parts

1. descendant - Noun

2. descendant - Adjective

3. descendant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Descendent.

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

offspring scion issue child seed heir lineage progeny posterity descendent children heirs ben godson family
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Antonyms

ancestor ascendant forebear ascendent messenger padre
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Hypernyms

relative relation

Hyponyms

child scion

Phrases with the word

his descendant dinosaur descendant descendant of immigrant parents celtic descendant indirect descendant

Examples

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. Herbert Spencer

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. Julian Jaynes

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. Stephen Jay Gould

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant. Nikos Kazantzakis

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. Howard Dean

Close letter words and terms

descendable descendance descendancy descendant of immigrant parents descendantless descendants