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单词 descendant
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descendant
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈsen.dənt/us
/dɪˈsen.dənt/
C2
apersonwho isrelatedto you and wholivesafter you, such asyourchildorgrandchild:
子孙，后代
He has no descendants.他没有后代。
Theyclaimto be descendantsofaFrenchduke.他们自称是一位法国公爵的后代。
Weoweit toourdescendants(=peopleyoungerthan us who willliveafter we havedied)toleavethem acleanworldtolivein.给子孙后代留下一个清洁的生活环境是我们的职责。
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ancestor
ananimalthatlivesafter and isrelatedto anotheranimalthatlivedin the past:
Lemurs are descendantsoftheearliestprimates.
something that issimilarto andinfluencedby something thatexistedbefore it:
Freerideskiingis ahybrid, trick-oriented descendantofskateboardingandsnowboarding.
The file-sharingserviceanditsdescendantsalloweduserstodownloadmusicforfree.
More examples
  • Most of thesepeoplearerefugeesor the descendants ofrefugees.
  • Surelyourdescendants willwonderwhy we didn'tnotice, why we did nothing aboutgreenhousegases.
  • Thesewildhorsesare thelivingdescendants ofuntoldgenerationsof Ozarkshistory.
  • Hehopesdescendants of thesemonkeyswillspreadbeyond thereserveto repopulatenearbymountains.
  • What makes these mutationsparticularlydangerousis that they arepasseddown from acellto allitsdescendants.
  • ThiscelebratedCoenbrothersdebutis aworthydescendant ofclassic1940sfilmnoir.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Family: ancestors & descendants
  • ancestor
  • ancestral
  • ancestry
  • be in the/someone'sbloodidiom
  • blood
  • blood is thicker than wateridiom
  • distaff
  • family tree
  • forbear
  • forebear
  • forefather
  • genealogy
  • generation
  • heraldic
  • heraldry
  • lineage
  • lineal
  • run in the familyidiom
  • sandwich generation
  • successor
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(Definition ofdescendantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
descendant
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈsen.dənt/us
/dɪˈsen.dənt/
C2
apersonwho isrelatedto you and wholivesafter you, such asyourchildorgrandchild
子孙，后代
He has no descendants.他没有后代。
Theyclaimto be descendantsofaFrenchduke.他们自称是一位法国公爵的后代。
Weoweit toourdescendants(=peopleyoungerthan us who willliveafter we havedied)toleavethem acleanworldtolivein.给子孙后代留下一个清洁的生活环境是我们的职责。
Compare
ancestor

descendant| American Dictionary

descendant
noun[C]
us
/dɪˈsen·dənt/
apersonrelatedto someone from anearliergeneration(= all thepeopleof about the sameagewithin aparticularfamily):
The PennsylvaniaDutchare descendants of earlyGermanimmigrants.
(Definition ofdescendantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdescendant

descendant
Therefore, growth rates may increase over time simply because the initial anddescendantcells are recovering from treatment rather than evolving.
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Later they absorbed the surviving nomadic descendants of the authentic autochtons.
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The binding will only be visible in the current space and its descendants.
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Ancestors, by contrast, were continuous and consubstantial with their descendants, which guaranteed their human approachability.
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And these masks, in turn, are most likely descendants of medieval devil clowns.
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For women and religious titleholders, our models suggest a potent and statistically meaningful connection between the father's religious title and his descendant's wealth.
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Nor does one have any control over what an offspring may do to a third or subseqent generations of descendants.
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As a person's descendants branch out over successive generations, each generation gains only a portion of the earlier generation's claim.
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Within each continent of origin there are no differences in standardized mean birth weights of descendants of the different component countries, with only three exceptions.
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For one group of their descendants, the magic strainer through which longsuffering language is to be poured is the supposedly sociopolitical criterion of 'sexism'.
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Niche-constructing organisms may also substantially modify the environment of their offspring, and even more distant descendants.
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This means, by recursion, that even if we don't care directly for the well-being of our distant descendants, we do care for them indirectly.
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The vast majority of adult descendants were married, widowed or divorced.
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In other cases descendants of siblings could be given priority over the offspring of the deceased.
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It extended to all lineal descendants of the degraded individual born subsequent to the act resulting in degradation.
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Collocationswithdescendant

descendant

These are words often used in combination withdescendant.

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direct descendant
We are left in no doubt that we are dealing with adirectdescendantof the animal whose special gift was the multiplication of words.
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lineal descendant
I suggest that there is an alternative, and that is itslinealdescendant, the basic income guarantee scheme.
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living descendants
The latter claim a special distinction as living descendants of the original troubadours; the former views himself as more remotely related to medieval music.
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