Meaning & use
descendant
A person who is related to someone who lived in an earlier generation.
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She is a direct descendant of one of the ship's original passengers.
The museum traced the artifacts back to descendants of the region's earliest settlers.
A note on using this word
Contrasts with "ancestor," which refers to someone earlier in the family line, not later.
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