descendants

noun, plural of descendant (a descendant, descendants)

«descendants» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Your descendants are your children, their children, their children's children and so on into the future. tree →
(science) Animals or plants that come from an older kind of living thing, like birds being descendants of dinosaurs. tree →
Something new that grew out of an older thing (formal), like modern languages from older ones. tree →

In the lessons

Used in history, family trees and science (evolution). Phrases: «direct descendants», «descendants of settlers», «have many descendants». It tells the reader about a line going forward in time from a person or creature.

Examples

The old farmer had twenty descendants at his birthday party. tree →
Birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. tree →
Many people in New Zealand are descendants of Māori voyagers. tree →
Her descendants still live in the same village in Ireland. tree →
Our class drew a family tree showing a great-grandmother's descendants. tree →
Dogs are descendants of wolves. tree →
The queen's descendants include princes and princesses. tree →
“Descendants are only children,” said John. tree →

Note

Opposite: «ancestors» (people who came before you). Spelling trap: the noun is usually «descendant» with -ant; «descendent» with -ent is a rarer adjective spelling. Countable: one descendant, many descendants. In family-tree maths, if each person has 2 children, the number of descendants doubles each generation: 2, 4, 8 …

In Jewish tradition

Examples

== Chapter 6 == [6:1] Three Fathers and their descendants, and Seven Stars [another version: Conquerors] and their hosts, and Twelve Diagonal Borders. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

Note

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «descendants» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«descendants» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «descendants» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«descendants» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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