DESCENDANTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does descendants mean? 

• DESCENDANTS (noun)
  The noun DESCENDANTS has 1 sense:

1. all of the offspring of a given progenitor

  Familiarity information: DESCENDANTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESCENDANTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All of the offspring of a given progenitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

descendants; posterity

Context example:

we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity

Hypernyms ("descendants" is a kind of...):

biological group (a group of plants or animals)

 Context examples 

Denotes the inhabitants of Indonesia, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Indonesian, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Iran, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Iranian, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Haiti, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Haitian, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Dominica, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Dominica Islander, NCI Thesaurus)

This process occurs very early in the differentiation of B- and T-lymphocytes, such that individual B- and T-cell progenitors have unique genetic profiles that are passed down to their descendants.

(Clonal Gene Rearrangement, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Mongolia, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Mongolian, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Norway, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Norwegian, NCI Thesaurus)

The fate of the ancestor had been typical of that of his descendants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Denotes the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Papua New Guinean, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Palau, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Palauan, NCI Thesaurus)