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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