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descendant

[ dih-sen-duhnt ]

noun

  1. a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring.
  2. something deriving in appearance, function, or general character from an earlier form.
  3. an adherent who follows closely the teachings, methods, practices, etc., of an earlier master, as in art, music, philosophy, etc.; disciple.
  4. Astrology.
    1. the point opposite the ascendant.
    2. 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.
    3. the cusp of the seventh house.


descendant

1

/ dɪˈsɛndənt /

noun

  1. a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc
  2. something that derives or is descended from an earlier form


adjective

  1. a variant spelling of descendent

Descendant

2

/ dɪˈsɛndənt /

noun

  1. astrology the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Ascendant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of descendant1

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English descendaunt (adjective), from Old French descendant “going down,” present participle of descendre “to go down”; equivalent to descend + -ant

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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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