descendant

noun

/dɪˈsendənt/

a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them后裔；后代；子孙
- He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.他属于奥康纳家族，是爱尔兰最后一位君王的嫡系后裔。
- Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.他们中许多人都是早期移民的后裔。
Topics Historyc1, Family and relationshipsc1
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- direct
- lineal
- immediate
- …
something that has developed from something similar in the past（由过去类似物发展来的）派生物
- Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language克丘亚语－印加语的直系派生语言
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- direct
- lineal
- immediate
- …

词源late 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.

词汇	descendant
释义	descendant noun /dɪˈsendənt/ /dɪˈsendənt/ a person’s descendants are their children, their children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them后裔；后代；子孙 He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.他属于奥康纳家族，是爱尔兰最后一位君王的嫡系后裔。 Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.他们中许多人都是早期移民的后裔。 Topics Historyc1, Family and relationshipsc1 Collocations Dictionaryadjective direct lineal immediate … something that has developed from something similar in the past（由过去类似物发展来的）派生物 Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language克丘亚语－印加语的直系派生语言 Collocations Dictionaryadjective direct lineal immediate … 词源late 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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