- 1a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland. Many of them are descendants of the original settlers. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivedirect, lineal, immediate, … See full entry
- 2something that has developed from something similar in the past Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivedirect, lineal, immediate, … See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘descending’): from French, present participle of descendre ‘to descend’, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’. The noun dates from the early 17th cent.
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