descendent

American  

[dih-sen-duhnt] / dɪˈsɛn dənt /

adjective

1. descending; going or coming down.

2. deriving or descending from an ancestor.

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descendent British  

/ dɪˈsɛndənt /

adjective

1. coming or going downwards; descending

2. deriving by descent, as from an ancestor

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Other Word Forms

• undescendent adjective

Etymology

Origin of descendent

1565–75; < Latin dēscendent- (stem of dēscendēns ), present participle of dēscendere. See descend, -ent

Example Sentences

"I'm not a direct descendent of his, although I'm from the same family, but another branch of it," she once told the Independent.

From BBC

Willem-Alexander and Argentine-born Maxima are to meet representatives of the descendents of slaves, traditional people and Indigenous groups behind closed doors.

From Barron's

Should Hitler's DNA have been examined if his permission - or that of a direct descendent - could not be given?

From BBC

Mississippi is also home to the Piney Woods School, which was founded in 1909 to educate the descendents of former slaves and is now the nation’s oldest historically black boarding school.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is an ethnic Ovaherero descendent and town councillor in Swakopmund, where many of the atrocities took place, and said "our wealth was taken, the farms, the cattle".

From BBC