descendant

noun

/dɪˈsendənt/

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a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them
- He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
- Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.
Topics Historyc1, Family and relationshipsc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- direct
- lineal
- immediate
- …
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something that has developed from something similar in the past
- Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- direct
- lineal
- immediate
- …
See full entry

Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’. The noun dates from the early 17th cent.

单词	descendant
释义	descendant noun /dɪˈsendənt/ /dɪˈsendənt/ jump to other results a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland. Many of them are descendants of the original settlers. Topics Historyc1, Family and relationshipsc1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective direct lineal immediate … See full entry something that has developed from something similar in the past Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective direct lineal immediate … See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’. The noun dates from the early 17th cent.
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