descendants
Meaning of descendants
noun
- One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
- A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
- A later evolutionary type.
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
- A language that is descended from another.
English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
- A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
Information about descendants
- It is a name.
- The singular form of descendants is: descendant.
- Languages in which descendants is used:
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Hyphenation of descendants
de-scen-dants
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- descendants is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
descendants synonyms
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Translation of descendants
- French: lignée, postérité, descendance, descendants
- Italian: discendenza, progenie, discendenti
- German: Abkommen, Nachkommen, Nachfahren, Abkömmlinge
- Spanish: descendencia, descendientes, progenie
Words that rhyme with descendants
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