descendant

Definition of descendant in English English dictionary: One which derives directly from a given precursor or source
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.; proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source; One who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.; A later evolutionary type
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.; descending from a biological ancestor; one who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc; Person who is descended from another person, for example, a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild; Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants; Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it. His design was a descendant of a 1956 device ancestor; One who descends from another; one's child, offspring; {n} the offspring or race of an ancestor; {a} proceeding from another, falling; {i} offspring (child, grandchild, etc.); The descendant is the sun sign that is on the cusp of the 7th house; A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root "; Any node contained within the content of an element The children and their children are descendants Example: <p>This is a list <ul> <li>item 1</li> <li><em>item 2</em></li> </ul> with 2 items </p> The element "p" has direct children; going or coming down; Your descendants are your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on -- anyone to whom you are an ancestor; In OOP any class that is higher (away from TObject) in the hierarchy chain from a particular class is a descendant of that class All classes in C++Builder are descendants of TObject For example, all components are descendants of TComponent even though almost all of them have immediate ancestors further down the chain See "Implementation of TObject" for more information; The opposite point to the Ascendant, usually the cusp of the 7th house, also known as the Western Angle; One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; correlative to ancestor or ascendant; a person descended from his or her older generations; Descendent; The 7th house cusp of a chart, assumed to indicate attributes we seek and attract in others (particularly partners) Astronomically, the intersection of the horizon and the ecliptic in the west; one who is descended, however remotely, from another; a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race going or coming down; The descendants of a transaction are all the transactions that were spawned by the parent transaction or by any child or other descendant of that transaction; Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. ancestor; One who is the progeny of someone at any distance of time; e.g. a child; a grandchild, etc; Any member below a parent in the database outline For example, in the Sample Basic database, Qtr2 and April are descendants of Year; A later type; as, dogs evolved from relatives of early wolves; An immediate or remote offspring; Letter L is a descendant of letter M if M is an ancestor of L; Your descendant is someone whose ancestry can be traced to you: your child, grandchild, great-grandchild, etc; The seventh house (or its cusp), governing marriage, partnership and open confrontation; a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race; One of a class's subclasses, one of its subclasses's subclasses, etc Sometimes the word descendant includes the class itself, along with its proper descendants; A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model, where "below" means "away from the root "; The point in the birth chart opposite to the Ascendant; the cusp of the seventh house
descend: To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.
descend: To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
descendent: proceeding downward
descend: To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
descend: {v} to come down or from, spring, sink
descend: When night, dusk, or darkness descends, it starts to get dark. Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky. = fall
descend: To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate
descend: To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone
descend: VARCHAR2(4) Whether the column is sorted in descending order (Y/N)
descend: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
descend: {f} go down; be handed down (from generation to generation); lower oneself morally
descend: Params: -
descend: To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir
descend: To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered
descend: do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
descend: To enter mentally; to retire
descend: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
descend: To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; with on or upon
descend: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
descend: If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar She descended one flight of stairs. = go down rise, ascend
descend: To move toward the south, or to the southward
descend: emphasis When you want to emphasize that the situation that someone is entering is very bad, you can say that they are descending into that situation. He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos. = fall, slide
descend: To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
descend: vt turun
descend: When a mood or atmosphere descends on a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them. An uneasy calm descended on the area = fall
descend: To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase ones self; as, he descended from his high estate
descend: If a large group of people arrive to see you, especially if their visit is unexpected or causes you a lot of work, you can say that they have descended on you. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money
descend: To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc
descend: to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; the opposite of ascend
descend: disapproval If you say that someone descends to behaviour which you consider unacceptable, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they do it. We're not going to descend to such methods = stoop, sink
descend: An increase in speed (i e , decrease in time) from one piece to the next during a set Example: "3 X 100 descend" means "swim the first 100 at a moderate pace, the second a bit faster, and the third even faster still " Example: "6 X 100, descend by 3's" means "swim the first 100 at moderate pace, the second a bit faster, and the third even faster still; then repeat this pattern for the next three 100s "
descend: come down
descendants: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity
descendants: {i} posterity; all the offsprings to the remotest degree of a particular person; future generations
descendants: plural of descendant
descendent: Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source
descendent: descending; going down
descendent: going or coming down
descendent: {s} of offspring, descending from the family of -; moving downward
descendent: descending from (an ancestor)
descendent: of n Any node y for which n is an ancestor of y Every node is an descendent of itself
descendent: a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
descendent: The intersection of the ecliptic and the western horizon Also known as the "setting degree" and (generally) the cusp of the 7th house See also House
descendent: Within a hierarchy, a given member’s descendents include any members found along the path between the member and the hierarchy’s leaves
descendents: misspelling of descendants
lineal descendant: (Law) person who is a direct offspring, direct descendant (children and their children down through the generations, including grandchildren, great-grandchildren and so forth)

descendant

Hyphenation

de·scend·ant

Turkish pronunciation

dîsendınt

Synonyms

brood, child, children, chip off old block, get, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion

Antonyms

ascendant, ascendent, ascending, ancestor, predecessor

Pronunciation

/dəˈsendənt/ /dɪˈsɛndənt/

Etymology

(adjective.) 1572. Middle English dessendaunte, from Middle French, from Latin dēscendēns, present participle of descendere, itself from dē + scandere (“climb, ascend”).

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