Descendant Dɪˈsendənt People Related Settlers Developed Noun N Count
Descendant (noun) refers to a person who is related to someone who lived a long time ago, or more broadly, to something that has developed from an earlier form.
descendant (n.) v. 后代;后裔;子孙 泛指某人之后代的子孙,或者特指由旧事物发展而来的新事物。
[N-COUNT 可数名词]后代;后裔;子孙 Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
[usu pl]
They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
他们是最初的英格兰和苏格兰定居者的后代。
...Lord Cochrane and his descendants.
科克伦勋爵及其后裔
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]派生物;衍生物;后代产物 Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it.
[usu N of n]
His design was a descendant of a 1956 device...
他的设计是从一个 1956 年的装置衍生而来的。
They are the descendants of plants imported by the early settlers.
它们是早期移民带来的一些植物的后代。
Oxford
des·cend·ant/dɪˈsendənt; NAmEdɪˈsendənt/noun1a person's descendantsare their children, their children's children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them 后裔;后代;子孙◆He was an O'Conor and a direct descendantof the last High King of Ireland. 他属于奥康纳家族,是爱尔兰最后一位君王的嫡系后裔。◆Many of them are descendants of the original settlers.他们中许多人都是早期移民的后裔。2something that has developed from sth similar in the past (由过去类似物发展来的)派生物descendantdescendantsdes·cend·ant/dɪˈsendənt; NAmEdɪˈsendənt/
1someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, group of people etc that existed in the past → ancestorsomebody’s descendants/the descendants of somebody The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists. He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.► see thesaurus at
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2something that has developed from something elsedescendant of Quechua is a descendant of the Inca language.
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后裔(44%),后代(38%),子孙(18%)
n.后裔;子孙
adj.下降的;祖传的
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