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Synonyms for descendant
dɪˈsɛn dəntde·scen·dant
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Wiktionary
descendantnoun
descendantadjective
descending from a biological ancestor
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
descendantnoun
One which derives directly from a given precursor or source
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
descendantnoun
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
descendant, descendentadjective
a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
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descendentAntonyms:
antecedent, root, ascendant, ancestor, ascendent, unrelated, ascending(a)descendant, descendentadjective
going or coming down
Synonyms:
descendentAntonyms:
root, antecedent, ascendent, ascendant, ancestor, ascending(a), unrelateddescendant, descendentadjective
proceeding by descent from an ancestor
"descendent gene"
Synonyms:
descendentAntonyms:
ascendant, ancestor, antecedent, root, ascendent, unrelated, ascending(a)
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "descendant":
descendent, scion, descendants, descending, top-down, offspring, descent
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#12492 | offspring | |
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#15790 | lineage | |
#16375 | scion | |
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#29173 | progeny | |
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How to use descendant in a sentence?
Kim Jong Un wants to break away from the past, as well as the Norths traditional cult of personality, he wants to come across and brand himself as a leader who is modern and competent, rather than a descendant of his predecessors.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
He wants to come across and brand himself as a leader who is modern and competent, rather than a descendant of his predecessors, and he wants to gradually tone down the idolization of the two late leaders as it goes against his agenda to brand the North as a normal state.
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
I am the only descendant of Indians who were missionized at any of the 21 California missions who is currently in a position of responsibility at one of those missions. So it's a unique situation, and it's one that I would hope in the next 20 or 30 years changes.
Translations for descendant
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- سليلArabic
- потомъкBulgarian
- descendentCatalan, Valencian
- potomekCzech
- Abkömmling, NachkommeGerman
- dzidzimeviEwe
- descendienteSpanish
- järglaneEstonian
- jälkeläinenFinnish
- descendantFrench
- sliochtachIrish
- צאצאHebrew
- keturunanIndonesian
- niðji, afkomandiIcelandic
- discendenteItalian
- 子孫, 子種Japanese
- 후예, 자손Korean
- whakahekenga, mokopunaMāori
- keturunanMalay
- etterkommerNorwegian
- nazaat, afstammeling, telg, nakomelingDutch
- potomekPolish
- descendentePortuguese
- urmaș, descendentRomanian
- потомокRussian
- потомак, pòtomakSerbo-Croatian
- potomecSlovene
- pasardhësAlbanian
- avkomma, ättling, avkomlingSwedish
- ఆనువంశీకుడు, వారసుడుTelugu
- нащадокUkrainian
- Hậu duệVietnamese
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