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Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.
John C. McGinley

Meaning of "descendent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESCENDENT

descendent  [dɪˈsɛndənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESCENDENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Descendent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DESCENDENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Descendant

Descendant or descendent primarily refers to: ▪ Lineal descendant, a consanguinous relative directly related to a person ▪ Collateral descendant, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor It may also refer to: ▪ Descendant, a thriller starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London ▪ Descendant, the point directly opposite from the Ascendant ▪ Descendants, a short, animated 3D film released in 2008 ▪ Descendants, a 2015 Disney Channel Original Movie ▪ Descendents, a punk rock band from southern California ▪ "The Descendant", a short story by early 20th-century science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft ▪ The Descendants, a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings ▪ The Descendants, a 2011 film by Alexander Payne ▪ A type of node in a tree structure ▪ A subordinate in a hierarchy...

Definition of descendent in the English dictionary

The definition of descendent in the dictionary is coming or going downwards; descending. Other definition of descendent is deriving by descent, as from an ancestor.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESCENDENT


appendant
əˈpɛndənt
ascendant
əˈsɛndənt
ascendent
əˈsɛndənt
attendant
əˈtɛndənt
co-dependent
ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənt
defendant
dɪˈfɛndənt
dependant
dɪˈpɛndənt
dependent
dɪˈpɛndənt
descendant
dɪˈsɛndənt
independent
ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt
intendant
ɪnˈtɛndənt
interdependent
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənt
pendant
ˈpɛndənt
pendent
ˈpɛndənt
pretendant
prɪˈtɛndənt
pretendent
prɪˈtɛndənt
resplendent
rɪˈsplɛndənt
splendent
ˈsplɛndənt
superintendent
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənt
transcendent
trænˈsɛndənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESCENDENT

descale
descaler
descaling agent
descant
descanter
Descartes
descend
descendable
descendant
descended
descender
descendeur
descendible
descending
descension
descensional
descent
Deschamps
deschool
deschooler

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESCENDENT

accident
candent
chemically dependent
chief superintendent
co-respondent
correspondent
despondent
detective chief superintendent
detective superintendent
education correspondent
foreign correspondent
indent
insulin-dependent
nondependent
respondent
scandent
school superintendent
science correspondent
semi-independent
special correspondent
war correspondent

Synonyms and antonyms of descendent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «descendent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESCENDENT

Find out the translation of descendent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of descendent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «descendent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

后代
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descendiente
570 millions of speakers

English

descendent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वंशज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سليل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

потомок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

descendente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বংশধর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

descendant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keturunan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachfahre
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

子孫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하위
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Keturunan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hậu duệ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வம்சத்தாரான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वंशज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

soyundan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

discendente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

potomek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нащадок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

descendent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απόγονος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afstammeling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ättling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

descendent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of descendent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCENDENT»

The term «descendent» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.422 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCENDENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about descendent

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QUOTES WITH «DESCENDENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word descendent.
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John C. McGinley
Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCENDENT»

Discover the use of descendent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to descendent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Genealogy of Some of the Descendent of John Coolidge of ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Joseph Coolidge, 2009
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Lord Liu Chun's Secrets of Longevity: 600 Years of Proven Cures
Descendent 3 Liu Wei 1436 1527 91 Imperial physician 承袭3 刘谓 Descendent 4 Liu Kan 1463 1549 86 Imperial physician 承袭4 刘刊 Descendent 5 Liu Lang Director of Ministry of Health 1489 1579 90 承袭5 刘琅 Descendent 6 Liu Yi ...
Bernard Ho, 2010
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CSS3: The Missing Manual
The descendent selector approach adds no HTML and no more work beyond creating the style! Descendent selectors style elements that are nested inside other elements, following the exact same pattern of ancestors and descendants as the ...
David McFarland, 2012
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Animals for Research: A Directory of Commercial Sources of ...
Strain Designation Strain Origin Breeding System Code Sprague-Dawley SPD Random HUN Descendent Sprague-Dawley SPD Random LAC Descendent Sprague-Dawley SPD Random LAF Descendent Sprague-Dawley SPD Random  ...
Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (U.S.), 1961
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DB2 Universal Database V8 Handbook for Windows, Unix, and Linux
caded to ull descendenis tincluding descendent foreign key tables. and immediate staging tablesi. IMMEDIATE Indicates that the check pending state tread or no access modei tor foreign key constraints is immediately extended to all ...
Philip K. Gunning, 2003
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Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual
Dreamweaver generally suggests the most complete descendent selector, meaning the tag you want to format and every ancestor tag (every tag wrapped around the selected element). In most cases, you won't need such complicated ...
David McFarland, 2012
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Dreamweaver CC: The Missing Manual
... Importing Datainto a Table descendent selectors, Descendent Selectors, Descendent Selectors, Descendent Selectors, Descendent Selectors, Descendent Selectors with Class andID Styles, Descendent SelectorswithClass and ID Styles, ...
David Sawyer McFarland, Chris Grover, 2013
8
The Entire Endtime Sequence: As Foretold by Jesus Christ
This refers to a descendent of King David reigning over them. It is very common in scriptures to speak of a descendent of a person as if it were the person himself. This servant thinks of this as another example of “blending” of two things. It is as ...
Robert L Carlton, 2012
9
ECAI 2012: 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
There are four generic topological feature predicates: (is-descendentof ?val0 ? val1), (is-nth-descendent-of ?val0 ?val1), (is-tree-levelm-descendent-of ?val0 ? val1) and (is-nth-tree-level-m-descendent-of ?val0 ?val1). These four generic ...
L. De Raedt, C. Bessiere, D. Dubois, 2012
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Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
For instance, in the second example—body li a—ul isn't needed. This selector works as long as there's an <a> tag that's a descendent (somewhere up the line) of an <li> tag (which is also a descendent of the <body> tag). This selector can just ...
David Sawyer McFarland, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESCENDENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term descendent is used in the context of the following news items.
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This Is What the New Ghostbusters Will Drive
... a model that's actually descendent from the 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor Combination End Loaders that were used in the first two movies. «Gizmodo India, Jul 15»
2
The mystery of the iMac's granddaddy: The Twentieth Anniversary …
My new iMac, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh's spiritual descendent, is vastly more powerful, and has over thirty times the number of ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
3
Village seeks James heir to alter deed
MARBLEHEAD – Are you an heir or descendent to the James family from Marblehead? The Marblehead Village Council is looking for you. «Port Clinton News Herald, Jul 15»
4
Tiger Lion Arts' Nature takes theater outdoors
That's what TigerLion Arts' Tyson Forbes, a descendent of the famous transcendentalist, has done. Nature is a walking play that he co-wrote ... «City Pages, Jul 15»
5
Wednesday reader's view: Sufficiently considered
And “son” can be literally a son, or a grandson, a descendent, an adopted son; a disciple; a descendent; or one who was a member of the ... «Midland Daily News, Jul 15»
6
Steager claims state crown
It was almost a right of passage for the descendent of Gladys and the late Adolph Nemec of Prague. She followed in the footsteps of other ... «Wahoo Newspaper, Jul 15»
7
Boonton Historical Society wins award
Mabel Kingsland Head was the last Kingsland descendent to live in the Miller-Kingsland House, Boonton's oldest recorded home. Together ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
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Durlynn Anema: Harriet Chalmers Adams, adventuress
Russ Adams is a descendent from Franklin Adams' side. I visited Russ and Janet recently. As we chatted about Russ' relationship to Franklin, ... «Lodi News-Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Rare eye disease sends volunteer on genealogical quest
Shearer descendent Connie Alexander has been riding shotgun with Carter on a recent Ohio leg of the cross-country tour. Alexander found out ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
10
Pedee News: Arlene Kovash
Junior is a direct descendent of the King family which Kings Valley is named for, and he has lived in or near Kings Valley for most of his 91 ... «Polkio.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Descendent [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/descendent>. Apr 2024 ».
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