Definition of Descendants in English :

Define Descendants in English

Descendants meaning in English

Meaning of Descendants in English

Pronunciation of Descendants in English

Descendants pronunciation in English

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Descendants

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Noun

1. descendants, posterity

all of the offspring of a given progenitor

Example Sentences:
'we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity'

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Descendants

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noun
1. 
a person, animal, or plant when described as descended from an individual, race, species, etc
2. 
something that derives or is descended from an earlier form
adjective
3.  a variant spelling of descendent
noun
astrology
the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Ascendant

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Descendants

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adjective
1. 
descending
: also deˈscendent
noun
2. 
a person who is an offspring, however remote, of a certain ancestor, family, group, etc.
3. 
something that derives from an earlier form

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Descendants

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n.
1. One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group: a descendant of Queen Victoria; descendants of a prize-winning horse.
2. Something derived from a prototype or earlier form: Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede.
3. In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that sets in the west at the time of a person's birth or other event.
adj.
Variant of descendent.

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