descendant
US: /dɪˈsɛndənt/
UK: /dɪsˈɛndənt/
UK: /dɪsˈɛndənt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
descendant /di'sendənt/
- danh từ
- con cháu; người nối dõi
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 a person's descendants are their children, their children's children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them: He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland. + Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.
2 something that has developed from sth similar in the past
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
offspring, progeny, issue, heir, posterity, family; child, son, daughter, grandchild, scion; offshoot:
They claim to be descendants of Tsar Nicholas.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
direct, lineal
Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language
| collateral | immediate | distant, remote
He was an O'Conor and a distant descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
Concise English dictionary
descendants-dənt
noun
+a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
adj.
+going or coming down
