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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DESCENDANT, n. Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line of generation, ad infinitum. We are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: going or coming down [syn: descendant, descendent]
2: proceeding by descent from an ancestor; "descendent gene" [syn: descendant, descendent] n
1: a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race [syn: descendant, descendent] [ant: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective also descendent Etymology: Middle English dessendaunte, from Anglo-French descendant, from Latin descendent-, descendens, present participle of descendere Date: circa 1555 1. moving or directed downward 2. proceeding from an ancestor or source II. noun also descendent Etymology: French & Latin; French descendant, from Late Latin descendent-, descendens, from Latin Date: 1600 1. one descended from another or from a common stock 2. one deriving directly from a precursor or prototype

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (often foll. by of) a person or thing descended from another (a descendant of Charles I). Etymology: F, part. of descendre (as DESCEND)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Descendant De*scend"ant, a. [F. descendant, p. pr. of descendre. Cf. Descendent.] Descendent.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(descendants) 1. Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. ? ancestor N-COUNT: usu pl, usu with poss 2. Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it. His design was a descendant of a 1956 device... ? ancestor N-COUNT: usu N of n

Moby Thesaurus

aftermath, backup man, breed, brood, by-product, child, children, conclusion, consequence, daughter, derivative, descendants, descent, dynasty, effect, family, foster child, fruit, grandchild, grandchildren, granddaughter, grandson, great-grandchildren, heir, heiress, heirs, hostages to fortune, inheritor, inheritors, issue, kids, line, lineage, little ones, new generation, offshoot, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, replacement, rising generation, scion, seed, sequel, son, son and heir, sonny, sons, spin-off, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, succession, successor, treasures, younglings, youngsters