descendant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Descending; going down.

   “The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.”

2. sıfat Descending from a biological ancestor.

   “Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.”

3. sıfat Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
4. isim One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

   “The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.”

5. isim A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.

   “This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.”

6. isim A later evolutionary type.

   “Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.”

7. isim A language that is descended from another.

   “English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.”

8. isim A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.

   “The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.”

9. isim The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.