From the Cambridge English Corpus. Later they absorbed the surviving nomadic descendants of the authentic autochtons. The binding will only be visible in the current space and its descendants. Ancestors, by contrast, were continuous and consubstantial with their descendants, which guaranteed their human approachability.
And these masks, in turn, are most likely descendants of medieval devil clowns. For women and religious titleholders, our models suggest a potent and statistically meaningful connection between the father's religious title and his descendant's wealth. Nor does one have any control over what an offspring may do to a third or subseqent generations of descendants.
As a person's descendants branch out over successive generations, each generation gains only a portion of the earlier generation's claim. Within each continent of origin there are no differences in standardized mean birth weights of descendants of the different component countries, with only three exceptions. For one group of their descendants, the magic strainer through which longsuffering language is to be poured is the supposedly sociopolitical criterion of 'sexism'.
Niche-constructing organisms may also substantially modify the environment of their offspring, and even more distant descendants. This means, by recursion, that even if we don't care directly for the well-being of our distant descendants, we do care for them indirectly.
The vast majority of adult descendants were married, widowed or divorced. In other cases descendants of siblings could be given priority over the offspring of the deceased.
It extended to all lineal descendants of the degraded individual born subsequent to the act resulting in degradation. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations with descendant. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. Britannica English: Translation of descendant for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of descendant Entry 1 of 2.
Definition of descendant Entry 2 of 2. Examples of descendant in a Sentence Adjective the descendant branches of a weeping willow Noun One of the famous inventor's descendants is also an inventor. Many people in this area are descendants of German immigrants. Recent evidence supports the theory that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs.
The Italian language is one of Latin's descendants. Descendant adjective proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source. Descendant noun literally One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations. Ancestor noun legal One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
Descendant noun figuratively A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source. Ancestor noun figuratively One who had the same role or function in former times. Descendant noun biology A later evolutionary type.
Ancestor noun One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
Descendant noun linguistics A language that is descended from another. Ancestor noun An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. Descendant noun linguistics A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language. Ancestor noun One from whom an estate has descended; - the correlative of heir. Descendant adjective Descendent. Ancestor noun someone from whom you are descended but usually more remote than a grandparent.
Descendant noun One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; - correlative to ancestor or ascendant. Ancestor An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or recursively the parent of an antecedent i. Descendant noun a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race. Descendant adjective going or coming down. Popular Comparisons. Adress vs. Comming vs. In addition, an ancestor can legally refer to the person from whom an estate was lawfully acquired.
This does not imply consanguinity. A descendant is a person who descends from a specific ancestor. In other words, a person's descendants are those people in later generations who are related to them.
For example, your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are your offspring. You are someone's descendant, and those who come after you are your descendants.
For example, you are a descendant of your great grandparents. Like the ancestors, the descendants share a genetic relationship. Hence, these two words, ancestor and descendant, are polar opposites.
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