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descendants

/dɪˈsɛndənts/noun3 syllables

Descendants means: all of the offspring of a given progenitor.

Synonyms for descendants1

noun, as in all of the offspring of a given progenitor

posterity

What does descendants mean?1

noun

1

all of the offspring of a given progenitor“we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with descendants?4

four syllables

independents
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Descendants in a sentence

  • We want to leave our descendants a clean and green earth.Eldad
  • Dogs are believed to be descendants of wolves.Hybrid
  • Latin was more strictly pro-drop than any of its descendants.shekitten
  • The settlers were descendants of the surviving crew.Amastan
  • America owes the descendants of enslaved people reparations for their as-yet-unpaid labor.shekitten
  • He has no descendants, he's likely sterile.anzart
  • The Guanche people are descendants of ancient Berber people.Amastan
  • How many descendants of Julius Caesar do you think are still alive?megamanenm

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