Crossword clues for descendant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Descendant \De*scend"ant\, a. [F. descendant, p. pr. of descendre. Cf. Descendent.] Descendent.
Descendant \De*scend"ant\, n. One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Our first parents and their descendants.
--Hale.
The descendant of so many kings and emperors.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c. (adj.), c.1600 (n.), from French descendant (13c.), present participle of descendre (see descend). Despite a tendency to use descendent for the adjective and descendant for the noun, descendant seems to be prevailing in all uses and appears 5 times more often than its rival in books printed since 1900. Compare dependant.
Wiktionary
a. 1 descending from a biological ancestor. 2 proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source. alt. 1 (context literally English) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations. 2 (context figuratively English) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source. 3 (context biology English) A later evolutionary type. 4 (context linguistics English) A language that is descended from another. 5 (context linguistics English) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language. n. 1 (context literally English) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations. 2 (context figuratively English) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source. 3 (context biology English) A later evolutionary type. 4 (context linguistics English) A language that is descended from another. 5 (context linguistics English) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
WordNet
adj. going or coming down [syn: descendent]
n. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race [syn: descendent] [ant: ancestor]
Wikipedia
The descendant forms the cusp of the seventh house of the horoscope and refers to partners or relationships. The descendant is ruled by the seventh sign of the zodiac, Libra, and its ruler planet, Venus. The sign the seventh house is in is, for astrologers, the sign of people you are the most attracted by, you easily get along well with and you are most likely to start a love relationship with, if backed up by other zodiacal aspects.
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A Descendant or descendent primarily refers to:
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Lineal descendant, a consanguinous (i.e. biological) relative directly related to a person.
- Collateral descendant, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor.
It may also refer to:
Descendant is a 2003 film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London based on the story " The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Usage examples of "descendant".
I think this must be admitted, when we find that there are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been ranked by some competent judges as mere varieties, and by other competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species.
Perhaps descendants of coyotes or raccoons, creatures too adaptable ever to need refuge in arks.
Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the archery medal, I boast myself Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus, I am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in St.
To recompense Jean V for his liberality, the clergy accorded to him, for himself and his descendants, the right of burial in a chapel of the apse, consecrated to St.
The youngest living Arnest son, who married a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, has bought back Nomini and more than one hundred acres of the surrounding land.
But Jordan and other engineers at Stanford believed that the device might have a few practical applications and before long it became clear how stunningly correct they were - the audion was the first electronic vacuum tube, and its descendants ultimately made possible radio, television, radar, medical monitors, navigation systems and computers themselves.
WHEN the dinner hour came, the descendants of the Beld family formed a glum group.
The khepri in Armada, like those in New Crobuzon, must be descendants of refugees from the Mercy Ships, worshipping what was left, what they remembered, of the Bered Kai Nev pantheon.
Ironically for the ghost of great-grandfather Bruder, it was the same spirit that Heinrich himself had ended up by extending over his descendants in the house where Ett had discovered his spiritual kinship with the old man.
Chinese language is clearly related to the Chaldean, and that both the Chinese characters and the cuneiform alphabet are degenerate descendants of an original hieroglyphical alphabet.
Well, the degenerate descendants of both Hruun and dactyloid colonists, whose cultures are otherwise utterly different and very hostile to each other, have a common answer to that: the plague star.
He was Oda Yorimoto, descendant of a powerful daimio of the Ashikaga Dynasty of shoguns who had fled Japan with his faithful samurai nearly three hundred and fifty years before upon the overthrow of the Ashikaga Dynasty.
Justinian and Theodora accepted the honor of educating and enriching the female descendants of the great Theodosius.
Neither her grandmother Rosene nor her great-uncle Gadman had ever let anyone forget that they and their descendants were royal kin.
Grand Duke Gadman and Grand Duchess Rosene would both be satisfied, for each would see a descendant ascend to the throne.