descendant

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

des·cend·ant [descendant descendants] BrE [dɪˈsendənt] NAmE [dɪˈsendənt] 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

Word Origin:
late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ scandere ‘to climb’. The noun dates from the early 17th cent.

Example Bank:
•He was an O'Conor and a distant descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
•Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root