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Definition: Descendant |
DescendantAdjective1. Going or coming down. Noun1. A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "descendant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Each of the new states that can be produced from an initial state-the root node-by the application of just one operator. Source: European Union. (references) |
Math | A child of a node in a tree, any of the children of the children, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DescendantSynonym: descendent (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ancestor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Posterity | Child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dallas Bache Wainwright The last descendant of Benjamin Franklin to work for the Coast Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dante | Art, as far as it has the ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, so that art must be, as it were, a descendant of God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Came to make him a visit under the name of Count de Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A descendant of Baldwin the First, captain Francis Forster, settled in Ireland and married the daughter of the last chieftain of Clanbrassil |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Andorra | A descendant of the count later gave the lands to the diocese of Urgel, headed by Bishop of Urgel. (references) |
Afghanistan | Babur, a descendant of Tamerlane and the founder of India's Moghul dynasty at the beginning of the 16th century, made Kabul the capital of an Afghan principality. (references) | |
Japan | Traditional Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | However, Qisas and Diyat cannot be invoked where the victim is a direct lineal descendant of the perpetrator. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette. |
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| "Descendant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Descendant" is used about 252 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 252 | 18,696 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
descendant | 31 |
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descendant chart | 6 |
descendant movie | 5 |
descendant heigl | 3 |
descendant shawm | 3 |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "descendant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pasardhës (after, offset, offspring, progeniture, scion, successor). (various references) | |
Arabic | ولد (child, give birth, son, to bear), منحدر من, هابط (fallen), السليل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | потомък (child, heir, issue, offspring, root, scion, sprout). (various references) | |
Chinese | 后" (descendants, Descendent, lineage, Progeny), 晜 (around noon, elder brother), 昆 (elder brother), 後" . (various references) | |
Czech | potomek (issue, offshoot, offspring, progeny). (various references) | |
Danish | forældreskab, efterkommere (child, descendants, offspring, son, successor node), efterkommer (descendants), barn (bairn, child, infant, offspring, young). (various references) | |
Dutch | zoon (son), opvolger (child, offspring, son, successor, successor node), nakomeling (child, offspring, successor, young), intern punt (child, offspring, son, successor node), afstamming (lineage), afstammeling (child, offspring, successor, young). (various references) | |
Finnish | seuraajasolmu (child, offspring, son, successor node), jälkeläinen (child, offspring, successor, young). (various references) | |
French | descendant (descandent, descending). (various references) | |
German | Nachkomme (child, offspring, scion), abkömmling (adherent, child, derivative, offspring, successor, young), Abkomme (child, offspring, successor, young). (various references) | |
Greek | απόγονος (progeny). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צאצא (child, issue, scion), צר (offshoot, offspring, scion, shoot, sprig, sprout). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utód (child, chip, issue, posteriors, progeny, successor), leszármazott (direct descendant, offspring, progeny, scion), ivadék (brood, get, issue, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scion, spawn). (various references) | |
Indonesian | turunan (copy, derivative, transcript). (various references) | |
Irish | uí (O'; descendant), ní (is not, no, not, thing). (various references) | |
Italian | discendente (descandent, descending, down, downhill, offspring, scion, successor). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胤" (successor), 苗" , 後胤 (scion), 後" , 後葉 (future generations, posterity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | びょうえい, いねい (successor), "うい" (abduction, arrest, bank clerk, custody, factory worker, Father Time, Imperial descendant, official seal, scion, seduction, sexual indulgence, time), "うよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, outline, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), "うえい (glory, honour, privilege, public management, rear guard). (various references) | |
Korean | 자손 (descendants, Descendent). (various references) | |
Manx | sluightagh (fruitful, prolific), sluight (children's children, family, lineage, offspring, parentage, passage, posterity, progeniture, race, remnant, seed), fuilleeaght (blood relationship, breed, consanguinity, lineage, pedigree). (various references) | |
Norwegian | etterkommer. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | escendantday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | descendente (descendent, downward, successor). (various references) | |
Romanian | descendent (descending, downward), urmaş (adherent, after-comer, descendants, disciple, follower, heir, offspring, scion, successor), odraslã, nepot (boy, grandson, nephew), fiu (boy, child, son), copil (babe, baby, bairn, bantling, boy, brat, child, chip, imp, infant, kid, offspring, papoose, peter pan, son, urchin). (various references) | |
Russian | потомок (issue, offset, offspring, progeny, scion, shoot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | potomak (offspring, scion), koji silazi, koji potiče. (various references) | |
Spanish | descendiente (descending, offspring, successor). (various references) | |
Swedish | avkomling (offspring), ättling (offspring, off-spring, scion). (various references) | |
Thai | ลูกหลาน (issue, sprig), ซึ่งสืบทอ"มา (descendent). (various references) | |
Turkish | düşen şey, torun (grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, offshoot), oğul (a cluster of bees, boy, cadet, cion, cluster, junior, son, swarm, swarm of bees), neslinden olan kişi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спадний (degressive, downward), що походить, нащадок (child, daughter, offset, offshoot, offspring, scion, son, sprout). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người nối dõi, con cháu (offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, spawn). (various references) | |
Welsh | disgynnydd, esillydd (offspring). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | isimu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proles, successio. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | neveu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 50, Verse 27 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dissipate universos fortes eius descendant in occisionem vae eis quia venit dies eorum tempus visitationis eorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Scatereth alle his stronge men, come thei doun in to slayter; wo to them, for comen is the dai of hem, tyme of ther visiting. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 50, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Pamatya ang tanan niyang mga toro nga vaca: paadtoa sila sa ihawan: alaut sila! kay ang ialng adlaw miabut na, ang panahon sa pagdu-aw kanila. |
| Croatian | Pokoljite svu junad njegovu, u klaonicu neka siðu! Jao njima, došao je njihov dan, vrijeme kazne njihove! |
| Danish | ødelæg alle dets Okser, før dem ned til Slagtning! Ve dem, deres Dag er kommet, Hjemsøgelsens Tid. |
| Dutch | Doodt met het zwaard al haar varren, laat ze afgaan ter slachting; wee over hen, want hun dag is gekomen, de tijd hunner bezoeking! |
| Finnish | Hävittäkää kaikki sen härät, astukoot ne teurastettaviksi. Voi heitä! Sillä heidän päivänsä on tullut, heidän rangaistuksensa aika. |
| French | Tuez tous ses taureaux, qu`on les égorge! Malheur eux! car leur jour est arrivé, Le temps de leur châtiment. |
| German | Erwürgt alle ihre Rinder, führt sie hinab zu Schlachtbank! Weh ihnen! denn der Tag ist gekommen, die Zeit ihrer Heimsuchung. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bunuhlah semua tentaranya! Tewaskan mereka! Celakalah bangsa Babel! Sudah tiba waktunya mereka dihukum!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bunuhlah olehmu dengan pedang akan segala lembu mudanya, bawalah turun akan dia kepada pembantaian; wai bagi mereka itu, karena sudah sampai harinya dan masa balasannya. |
| Italian | Uccidete tutti i suoi tori, scendano al macello. Guai a loro, perché è giunto il loro giorno, il tempo del loro castigo! |
| Maori | Patua ana puru katoa; tukua ratou kia haere ki raro ki te patunga: aue, te mate mo ratou! kua tae mai hoki to ratou ra, te wa e whiua ai ratou. |
| Norwegian | Drep alle dets okser*, la dem stige ned for å slaktes! Ve over dem! For deres dag er kommet, deres hjemsøkelses tid. # <* d.e. dets veldige menn.> |
| Portuguese | Matai a todos os seus novilhos, desçam ao degoladouro; ai deles! porque é chegado o seu dia, o tempo da sua punição. |
| Rumanian | Ucideyi -i toyi taurii wi junghiayi -i! Vai de ei! Cqci le -a venit ziua, vremea pedepsirii lor! |
| Russian | х'ЙЧБКФЕ ЧУЕИ ЧПМПЧ ЕЕ, ХУФШ Й"ХФ ОБ ЪБЛМБОЙЕ; ЗПТЕ ЙН! Й'П ТЙЫЕМ "ЕОШ ЙИ, ЧТЕНС ПУЕЭЕОЙС ЙИ. |
| Spanish | Destruid todos sus toros. ¡Que desciendan al matadero! ¡Ay de ellos! Porque ha venido su día, el tiempo de su castigo. |
| Swedish | Nedgören alla dess tjurar, fören dem ned till att slaktas. Ve dem, ty deras dag har kommit, deras hemsökelses tid! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "descendant": descendants. (additional references) | |
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"Descendant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decendant, decendent, descendeth, descendit, Desenfans, dispendant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "descendant" (pronounced duse"ndunt) |
| 9 | d u s e" n d u n t | descendent. |
| 8 | -u s e" n d u n t | ascendant. |
| 7 | -s e" n d u n t | transcendent. |
| 6 | -e" n d u n t | attendant, defendant, dependent, independent, interdependent, pendant, resplendent, superintendent. |
| 5 | -n d u n t | abundant, corespondent, correspondent, despondent, redundant, respondent. |
| 4 | -d u n t | antecedent, antioxidant, ardent, accident, coincident, confident, imprudent, decadent, decedent, discordant, dissident, evident, incident, mordant, nonresident, overconfident, oxidant, precedent, provident, prudent, resident, retardant, rodent, strident, student, trident, verdant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antidepressant, antigovernment, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, accelerant, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, cormorant, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decent, declarant, decongestant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resilient, resistant, resonant, restatement, resultant, resurgent, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, stringent, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ascendent, decadents, descanted, tendances. | |
-2 letters: ascended, canteens, decadent, decanted, scandent, tendance. | |
-3 letters: candent, canteen, cetanes, deadens, deadest, decades, decanes, decants, descant, descend, descent, enacted, encased, enneads, nascent, neatens, scanned, scanted, scended, scented, sedated, standee, steaded, tenaces. | |
-4 letters: anenst, anteed, ascend, ascent, cadent, cadets, canned, canted, ceased, censed, centas, cetane, danced, dances, deaden, deaned, decade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: descendants, transcended. | |
+2 letters: codefendants, disenchanted. | |
+4 letters: counterdemands. | |
+5 letters: discountenanced. | |
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