descendants

Meaning of descendants

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
    This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
  3. A later evolutionary type.
    Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
  4. A language that is descended from another.
    English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
  5. 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.
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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

Meaning posterity:

posterity

Meaning :

offspring, relative, scion

descendants antonyms

Meaning :

ancestor, ascendant, forebear

Translation of descendants

Words that rhyme with descendants

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