descendant
pronunciation
How to pronounce descendant in British English:
UK [dɪˈsendənt]
How to pronounce descendant in American English:
US [dɪˈsendənt]
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- Noun:
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
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- Adjective:
- going or coming down
Word Origin
- descendant
- 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.
Antonym
Example
- 1. His wife is a descendant of charles ii and his mistress nell gwynn .
- 2. Though smaller than its more celebrated descendant , raptorex was the largest meat-eater of its time .
- 3. His paternal grandmother was a direct descendant of king william iv , so technically he is a fifth cousin of the queen .
- 4. And one very exciting feature that was a top request is our support for more css selectors , which includes descendant and id-based selectors .
- 5. The only thing that we can classify as dynamic about the guy is the fact that his story is being relived through the eyes of his descendant .