I am a descendant of Israel's famous King David.
Source: tatoeba (5250559)
Descendant
//dɪˈsendənt//
Synonyms for "descendant" (92 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (46)
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3 entriesAntonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
155 translations across 69 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- afstammeling noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Albanian
1 entries- pasardhës noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπίγονος noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Arabic
1 entries- سَلِيل noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Armenian
3 entries- ժառանգ noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- հետնորդ noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- սերունդ noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Belarusian
3 entries- нашча́дак noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- нашча́дніца noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- пато́мак noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Bengali
2 entries- আওলাদ noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- ফরজন্দ noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пото́мък noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Catalan
2 entries- descendent adj (descending from (an ancestor))
- descendent noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Chinese
4 entries- 囝孫 /囝孙 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後代 /后代 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後嗣 /后嗣 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後裔 /后裔 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 兒孫 /儿孙 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 子孫 /子孙 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後代 /后代 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後嗣 /后嗣 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 兒孫 /儿孙 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 子孫 /子孙 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後代 /后代 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後嗣 /后嗣 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Czech
2 entries- potomek noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- potomkyně noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Danish
3 entries- afkom noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- efterkommer noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- efterkommer noun (later evolutionary type)
Dutch
4 entries- afstammeling noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- afstammeling noun (which derives directly from a given precursor or source)
- afstammeling noun (later evolutionary type)
- nakomeling noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Esperanto
2 entries- ido noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- posteulo noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Estonian
1 entries- järglane noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Ewe
1 entries- dzidzimevi noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Finnish
3 entries- jälkeläinen noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- jälkeläinen noun (later evolutionary type)
- seuraaja noun (which derives directly from a given precursor or source)
French
3 entries- descendant noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- descendant noun (later evolutionary type)
- descendante noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Galician
1 entries- descendente adj (descending from (an ancestor))
German
4 entries- Abkomme noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- Abkommin noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- Abkömmling noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- Abkömmling noun (later evolutionary type)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌰 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Greek
1 entries- απόγονος noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Hausa
1 entries- zuriya noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Hebrew
1 entries- צֶאֱצָא noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Hindi
2 entries- वंशज adj (descending from (an ancestor))
- वंशज noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Hungarian
1 entries- leszármazott noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Icelandic
3 entries- afkomandi noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- afkomandi noun (later evolutionary type)
- niðji noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Ido
1 entries- decendanto noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Indonesian
1 entries- keturunan noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Irish
1 entries- sliochtach noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Italian
1 entries- discendente noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Japanese
3 entries- 子孫 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 子種 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 後裔 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Kazakh
2 entries- тұқым noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- ұрық noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Korean
2 entries- 자손 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- 후예 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тукум noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Latin
2 entries- prognatus noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- successio noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Lycian
1 entries- 𐊏𐊁𐊇𐊁 noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Macedonian
1 entries- потомок noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Malay
1 entries- keturunan noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠠᠮᠠᡤᠠ ᡝᠨᡝᠨ noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Māori
4 entries- mangainga noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- mokopuna noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- tākerekere noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- whakahekenga noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Norman
3 entries- d'scendant noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- d'scendant noun (later evolutionary type)
- d'scendante noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Northwestern Ojibwa
1 entries- ondoode adj (descending from (an ancestor))
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- etterkommer noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- etterkomar noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- etterkommar noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- نسل noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Persian
1 entries- فروشونده noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Polish
4 entries- descendent noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- potomek noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- potomkini noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- zstępny noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Portuguese
3 entries- descendente noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- descendente noun (which derives directly from a given precursor or source)
- descendente noun (later evolutionary type)
Romanian
4 entries- descendent noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- descendentă noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- urmaș noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- urmașă noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Russian
2 entries- пото́мок noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- пото́мок noun (later evolutionary type)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pòtomak noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- pòtomak noun (later evolutionary type)
- по̀томак noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- потомак noun (later evolutionary type)
Slovak
2 entries- potomkyňa noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- potomok noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Slovene
1 entries- potomec noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Spanish
3 entries- descendiente adj (descending from (an ancestor))
- postremo adj (descending from (an ancestor))
- descendiente noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Swahili
1 entries- mzao noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Swedish
3 entries- avkomling noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- avkomma noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- ättling noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Tagalog
1 entries- inanak noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Tarifit
1 entries- tarwa noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Telugu
2 entries- ఆనువంశీకుడు noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- వారసుడు noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้สืบสันดาน noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Turkish
3 entries- döl noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- feri noun (later evolutionary type)
- zürriyet noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Tày
1 entries- bổi noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Ukrainian
3 entries- наща́док noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- наща́док noun (later evolutionary type)
- пото́мок noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hậu bối noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Welsh
2 entries- disgynnydd noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
- disgynnyddion noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Yiddish
1 entries- אָפּשטאַמלינג noun (one who is the progeny of someone)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
She was the youngest descendant of the king.
Source: tatoeba (5254505)
He's a descendant of Queen Victoria!
Source: tatoeba (5278743)
She's a descendant of King George!
Source: tatoeba (5278750)
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