Question

descendant Though none of the great man's descendants ever came close to achieving what he had, most of them enjoyed very respectable careers. dɪˈsɛndənt

Accepted Answer

(1) One that has come down from another or from a common stock. (2) One deriving directly from a forerunner or original. Descendant is the opposite of ancestor. Your grandparents' descendants are those who are descended from them—your parents, your brothers and sisters, and any children that any of you may have. It's been claimed that every person on earth is a descendant of Muhammad, and of every historical person before him—Julius Caesar, the Buddha, etc.—who started a line of descent. (Some of us still find this hard to believe.) And not all descendants are human; every modern thesaurus, for example, could be called the descendant of the one devised by Peter Mark Roget in 1852

word	descendant
definition	(1) One that has come down from another or from a common stock. (2) One deriving directly from a forerunner or original.
eg_sentence	Though none of the great man's descendants ever came close to achieving what he had, most of them enjoyed very respectable careers.
explanation	Descendant is the opposite of ancestor. Your grandparents' descendants are those who are descended from them—your parents, your brothers and sisters, and any children that any of you may have. It's been claimed that every person on earth is a descendant of Muhammad, and of every historical person before him—Julius Caesar, the Buddha, etc.—who started a line of descent. (Some of us still find this hard to believe.) And not all descendants are human; every modern thesaurus, for example, could be called the descendant of the one devised by Peter Mark Roget in 1852
IPA	dɪˈsɛndənt

Descendant Person Common Stock Deriving Directly Forerunner Original