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# descendants

«descendants» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **your children, their children, their children's children…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, plural of descendant (a descendant, descendants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your descendants are your children, their children, their children's children and so on into the future. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#m1)

2) (science) Animals or plants that come from an older kind of living thing, like birds being descendants of dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#m2)

3) Something new that grew out of an older thing (formal), like modern languages from older ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history, family trees and science (evolution). Phrases: «direct descendants», «descendants of settlers», «have many descendants». It tells the reader about a line going forward in time from a person or creature.

### examples

- == Chapter 6 == [6:1] Three Fathers and their descendants, and Seven Stars [another version: Conquerors] and their hosts, and Twelve Diagonal Borders. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x1)
- The old farmer had twenty descendants at his birthday party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x2)
- Birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x3)
- Many people in New Zealand are descendants of Māori voyagers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x4)
- Her descendants still live in the same village in Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x5)
- Our class drew a family tree showing a great-grandmother's descendants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x6)
- Dogs are descendants of wolves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x7)
- The queen's descendants include princes and princesses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x8)
- “Descendants are only children,” said John. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/#x9)

### note

Opposite: «ancestors» (people who came before you). Spelling trap: the noun is usually «descendant» with -ant; «descendent» with -ent is a rarer adjective spelling. Countable: one descendant, many descendants. In family-tree maths, if each person has 2 children, the number of descendants doubles each generation: 2, 4, 8 …

### In the corpora

- [God told Abraham to look at the stars and try to count them: his descendants would be as many.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/8/)
- [Birds are living descendants of dinosaurs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «descendants» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/descendants/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.