Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

descendant

 noun
     
Related topics: Family
de‧scen‧dant [countable]
1SSF someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, group of people etc that existed in the past [↪ ancestor]
somebody's descendants/the descendants of somebody
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists.
He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.
2 something that has developed from something else
descendant of
Quechua is a descendant of the Inca language.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dictionary pictures of the day
Do you know what each of these is called?
What is the word for picture 1? What is the word for picture 2? What is the word for picture 3? What is the word for picture 4?
Click on any of the pictures above to find out what it is called.

Explore our topic dictionary

Browse the dictionary