Thesaurus: descendant

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1. a. Descendent.
2. n. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
3. adj. going or coming down
4. adj. proceeding by descent from an ancestor
5. n. a person considered as descended from some ancestor
6. Descendent. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. Our first parents and their descendants. Hale. The descendant of so many kings and emperors. Burke.
7. n:100 n. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race s. going or coming down s. proceeding by descent from an ancestor