descendant
descendant 英 [dɪˈsendənt] 美 [dɪˈsɛndənt]
n. 后裔；子孙
名词复数:descendants
- The word descendant refers to something that has come down. For example, everyone is a descendant, or the end of a line of ancestors, just as modern art is a descendant of past art that contributed to its style and technique.
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- n. 后裔；子孙
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1. Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.
他们中许多人都是早期移民的后裔。
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2. She is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria.
她是维多利亚女王的嫡系后代。
- descendant mid-15c. (adj.), c. 1600 (n.), from French descendant (13c.), present participle of descendre (see descend). Despite a tendency to use descendent for the adjective and descendant for the noun, descendant seems to be prevailing in all uses and appears 5 times more often than its rival in books printed since 1900. Compare dependant.
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