descendent

[dih-sen-duhnt]

adjective

1. descending; going or coming down.

2. deriving or descending from an ancestor.

descendent

/ dɪˈsɛndənt /

adjective

1. coming or going downwards; descending

2. deriving by descent, as from an ancestor

Other Word Forms

• undescendent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of descendent¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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The law would also relax the requirement to consult indigenous or traditional quilombola communities - descendents of Afro-Brazilian slaves - in some situations unless they are directly impacted.

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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".

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Previously, anyone with an Italian ancestor who lived after 17 March, 1861 - when the Kingdom of Italy was created - qualified to be a citizen under the 'jus sanguinis', or descendent blood line law.

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These biopesticides may be chemically similar to their synthetic descendents, but they’re generally weaker, target fewer species and don’t linger in the environment.

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