descendant
noun/dɪˈsendənt/
/dɪˈsendənt/
- a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them
- He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
- Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- lineal
- immediate
- …
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- something that has developed from something similar in the past
- Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- lineal
- immediate
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’. The noun dates from the early 17th cent.
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