descendant

Meanings

Adjective

• descending from a biological ancestor.
• proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.

Noun

• One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
• A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
• A later evolutionary type.
• A language that is descended from another.
• A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.

Related

Opposite words

• ascendant, ascendent, ascending
• ascendant
• ancestor
• forebear

Origin

• From Middle English dessendaunte, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendo, from dē + scando.