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descendant
[ dih-sen-duhnt ]
noun
- a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.
- something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form.
- an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple.
- Astrology.
- the point opposite the ascendant.
- the point of the ecliptic or the sign and degree of the zodiac setting below the western horizon at the time of a birth or of an event.
- the cusp of the seventh house.
adjective
descendant
1/ dɪˈsɛndənt /
noun
- a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc
- something that derives or is descended from an earlier form
adjective
- a variant spelling of descendent
Descendant
2/ dɪˈsɛndənt /
noun
- astrology the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Ascendant
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Example Sentences
The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
Her grandfather had been a physician and healer who—according to family lore—married a descendant of the Osage or Pawnee tribes.
Dr No -- the lineal descendant of Fu Manchu—is the epitome of evil.
In the original Marvel comic books, the Mandarin was born and bred in China, a descendant of Genghis Khan no less.
Boswell is a man of the modern West, a spiritual descendant of the Wallace Stegner school of writing.
But not so: the postilion was an actual baron, the bearer of an ancient name, the descendant of gallant gentlemen.
She has outlived all her children: her oldest descendant living being a granddaughter, over sixty years old.
He was a descendant of the famous Abbe de Camps, so well known among bookmen and savants.
She was the descendant of a long line of courtesans, a feminine branch that had never made legal marriages.
The old man now dying is the last descendant left on this earth of the old Greek traders.
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