descendantde‧scen‧dant /dɪˈsendənt/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists. He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.► see thesaurus at relative2something that has developed from something elsedescendant of Quechua is a descendant of the Inca language.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Frederick and Bertha moved to Iowa in 1852, and their descendants still live in the area.
- Paul claims to be a descendant of King Charles I.
- But neither fish can be regarded as the one whose descendants eventually colonised the land permanently.
- His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years.
- Other descendants of the marine invertebrates have also left the water.
- The ancestral language can itself be reconstructed from the hints held in its much diverged descendants.
- The city has never officially acknowledged the losses of the displaced residents and their descendants.
- Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
- This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.
- Your article made it to a Woodson descendants list on the Internet of which I am a recipient.
THESAURUS
a member of your family, especially one who does not live with you: · Most of her relatives were able to come to the wedding.· We have some distant relatives in Australia.
a member of your family. Relation means the same as relative. It is often used when talking about whether someone is in the same family as another person: · Big cities can be lonely places if you have no friends or relations there.· ‘What relation is she to you?’ ‘She’s my half sister.’· He’s no relation to the singer.
someone who is a family member of a person who lived and died a long time ago, for example the great-grandchild of that person: · The people are the descendants of slaves who were brought over from Africa.
a member of your family who lived a long time ago, especially hundreds of years ago: · My ancestors originally came from Ireland.
especially written people in your family who lived a long time ago – often used in historical descriptions: · His forefathers came to America over a century ago.
a family group that consists not only of parents and children, but also includes grandparents, aunts etc: · Extended families rarely live together in Britain, but they are still important.
especially American English informal your family, especially your parents: · Are you going to see your folks at Christmas?
the person or people who are most closely related to you, for example your husband or mother, and who need to be told if something serious happens to you: · The next of kin must be notified of his death before his name is released to the press.
Longman Language Activatorpeople who were in the same family as you a long time ago a member of your family who lived a long time ago, especially hundreds of years ago: · My ancestors originally came from Ireland.· During the festival of Obon, Japanese show respect to their dead ancestors.
people that you are related to who lived a long time ago: · Her family came to America from Scotland in about 1750.· Our family has lived around here for hundreds of years.
someone who is a relative of a person who lived and died a long time ago, especially a famous or important person: · Frederick and Bertha moved to Iowa in 1852, and their descendants still live in the area.descendant of: · Paul claims to be a descendant of King Charles I.
people in your family who lived a long time ago: · His forefathers helped settle this area a century and a half ago.
WORD SETSbaby, nounbarrier method, nounbetrothal, nounboy, nounBr., branch, nouncontraception, nouncousin, noundescendant, noundescent, noundistant, adjectivedivorce, noundivorce, verbdivorced, adjectivedivorcée, noundomestic, adjectivedowry, noundynasty, nounex, nounextended family, nounfamilial, adjectivefamily man, nounfamily planning, nounfamily tree, nounfather, nounfather-in-law, nounfiancé, nounfiancée, nounfilial, adjectivefirst cousin, noungodchild, noungoddaughter, noungrandad, noungrandaddy, noungrandchild, noungranddad, noungranddaddy, noungranddaughter, noungrandfather, noungrandma, noungrandmother, noungrandpa, noungrandparent, noungrandson, noungranny, nounhalf-brother, nounhalf-sister, nounhereditary, adjectivehouse husband, nounin-laws, nounintermarry, verbmaiden aunt, nounmaid of honour, nounmam, nounmama, nounmamma, nounmammy, nounman, nounmarital, adjectivematrimony, nounmiscegenation, nounmixed marriage, nounmonogamy, nounnuclear family, nounoedipal, adjectiveOedipus complex, nounone-parent family, nounparent, nounparentage, nounparental, adjectiveparenthood, nounparenting, nounpaternity, nounpaternity suit, nounpatriarch, nounpatriarchy, nounpedigree, nounpolygamy, nounpropinquity, nounproposal, nounrelative, nounscion, nounseparate, verbseparated, adjectiveseparation, nounsibling, nounsingle parent, nounsister, nounsister-in-law, nounstepbrother, nounstepchild, nounstepdaughter, nounstepfather, nounstepmother, nounstepsister, nounstepson, noununcle, noununion, noununmarried, adjectiveupbringing, nounwedding, nounwedlock, nounwhite wedding, nounwidow, nounwidower, nounwidowhood, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists. He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists. He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.· Six generations of his direct descendants continued to live in Myddle throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.· The professor said he has no idea if Ayi is a direct descendant of other Glidji monarchs.· He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.· I don't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology.· In many ways the Aphrodisians were the direct descendants of Hellenistic and, more specifically, Pergamene sculpture.· Those who made it an issue were the direct descendants of the anti-military counter-culture of the 1960s.· Fly-leaf of a 1599 Bible perhaps inscribed by her husband to Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bernard.· But what are the mechanisms that cause the direct linear descendants of the zygote to change their character so radically?
· Their Mr. A. Waugh is a lineal descendant of Gifford, by the way of mentality.
VERB· To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants.· Those who choose infertile mates leave no descendants.· Thus leaving the descendants of the cabal in charge of the Imperium?· This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.· The success of an individual in biological terms depends on his ability to leave successful descendants.· People have such genes because those that employed criteria of beauty left more descendants than those that did not.· Those that did so would last longer and leave more descendants than those that did not.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, group of people etc that existed in the pastsomebody’s descendants/the descendants of somebody- Both marriages were childless; so that Elizabeth was the last direct descendant of William Shakespeare.
- Fly-leaf of a 1599 Bible perhaps inscribed by her husband to Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bernard.
- He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
- I don't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology.
- In many ways the Aphrodisians were the direct descendants of Hellenistic and, more specifically, Pergamene sculpture.
- Six generations of his direct descendants continued to live in Myddle throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- The professor said he has no idea if Ayi is a direct descendant of other Glidji monarchs.
- Those who made it an issue were the direct descendants of the anti-military counter-culture of the 1960s.
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists. He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.► see thesaurus at relative2something that has developed from something elsedescendant of Quechua is a descendant of the Inca language.