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Descendant
Definitions
- 1 Descending; going down. not-comparable
"The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory."
- 2 Descending from a biological ancestor. not-comparable
"Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner."
- 3 Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source. not-comparable
- 1 proceeding by descent from an ancestor wordnet
- 2 going or coming down wordnet
- 1 One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
"Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan"
- 2 a person considered as descended from some ancestor wordnet
- 3 A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source. figuratively
"This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants."
- 4 A later evolutionary type.
"Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves."
- 5 A language that is descended from another.
"English and Scots are the descendants of Old English."
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- 6 A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
"The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī."
- 7 The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
Etymology
From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).
From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, from dē + scandere (“to climb, ascend”).
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