English-French translations for descendant

• descendant
  C'est précisément le devoir de mémoire qui nous incombe, à nous leurs descendants. This is exactly what we, their descendants, have to do: remember and learn.
  Certains sont toujours en vie, et leurs descendants comptent près de 800 000 personnes. Some of them are still alive, while their descendants number almost 800 000.
  Si nous voulons que nos descendants sachent quel goût a le poisson, des contrôles sont essentiels. If we want our descendants to know the taste of fish, controls are essential.
• descendante

Definition of descendant

• descending from a biological ancestor
• One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations
• A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source
• A later evolutionary type
• A language that is descended from another
• A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language

Examples

• The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
• This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
• Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
• English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.

Related words

• Afrodescendant
• descendantless
• Afro-descendant