descendant
adjective
1. going or coming down
Similar word(s): descending, descendent
2. proceeding by descent from an ancestor
- descendent gene
Similar word(s): related, descendent
noun
1. a person considered as descended from some ancestor
Similar word(s): descendent
Definition categories: person, relation, relative
Sentences with descendant as a noun:
- The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
- This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
- Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
- English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.