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单词 descendant
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descendantnoun [ C ]

uk/dɪˈsen.dənt/us/dɪˈsen.dənt/

C2 a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild:

He has no descendants.
They claim to be descendants of a French duke.
We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in.
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Family: ancestors & descendants

  • ancestor
  • ancestry
  • be in the/sb's blood idiom
  • blood
  • blood is thicker than water idiom
  • bloodline
  • descent
  • family tree
  • forbear
  • forebear
  • forefathers
  • genealogy
  • generation
  • heraldry
  • lineage
  • pedigree
  • run
  • run in the family idiom
  • stock

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descendantnoun [ C ]

us/dɪˈsen·dənt/

a person related to someone from an earlier generation (= all the people of about the same age within a particular family):

The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of early German immigrants.
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