Descendent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Moving downward; descending.
  • adj. Proceeding by descent from an ancestor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. descending; going down
  • adj. descending from (an ancestor)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Going or coming down; falling; sinking; descending.
  • In heraldry, flying downward and showing the back: said of a bird used as a bearing.
  • Proceeding or descending from an original, as an ancestor.
  • n. See descendant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. going or coming down
  • n. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
  • adj. proceeding by descent from an ancestor
  • Equivalent
    descending    related   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    descending    falling   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ascendant    attendant    defendant    dependent    descendant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    parvenir    d'arret    secretaire    prennent    d'autrui