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# 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

1. Your descendants are your children, their children, their children's children and so on into the future. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#m1)
2. (science) Animals or plants that come from an older kind of living thing, like birds being descendants of dinosaurs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#m2)
3. Something new that grew out of an older thing (formal), like modern languages from older ones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x1)
- Birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x2)
- Many people in New Zealand are descendants of Māori voyagers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x3)
- Her descendants still live in the same village in Ireland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x4)
- Our class drew a family tree showing a great-grandmother's descendants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x5)
- Dogs are descendants of wolves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x6)
- The queen's descendants include princes and princesses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x7)
- “Descendants are only children,” said John. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/#x8)

### 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

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

- == 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x1)

### 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 …

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «descendants» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descendants/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«descendants» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/descendants.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «descendants» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«descendants» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/descendants.html) on Mova free.