Crossword-Solution: DESCENDANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Descendant | a. | Descendent. |
| Descendant | n. | One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “DESCENDANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| one descended from another or from a common stock | 1 answer |
| going or coming down | 1 answer |
| Offspring of | 1 answer |
| Next-generation member | 1 answer |
| Great-grandson, for one | 1 answer |
| FORERUNNER (ant.) | 2 answers |
| spin-off | 2 answers |
| cousin german | 3 answers |
| clansman | 3 answers |
| PRODUCT of | 5 answers |
| A PERSON CONSIDERED AS DESCENDED FROM SOME ANCESTOR OR RACE | 11 answers |
| derivative | 11 answers |
| Son | 12 answers |
| Sc-ion | 16 answers |
| Progeny | 27 answers |
| Heir | 27 answers |
| Cognate | 33 answers |
| Off-spring | 35 answers |
| Possessor? | 51 answers |
| Mother __ | 53 answers |
| Follower | 71 answers |
| "___ Family" | 74 answers |
| Offshoot | 74 answers |
| Graft | 77 answers |
| Father | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESCENDANT (5)
They had three descendants.” “What is descendants?” “Well, you are one, Twin.” “Did you hear that, John? I am a descendant.” “Descendants are only children,” said John.
SOS is a descendant (`Son of Stopgap') of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance.
Granted that Percy Blakeney was dull-witted, but in his slow-going mind, there would still be room for that ineradicable pride of a descendant of a long line of English gentlemen.
Here is a fact correctly stated; and yet it is phrased with such ingenious infelicity that it can be depended upon to convey misinformation every time it is uncarefully read: By the Salic law no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne.
The long lapse of intervening years, in a climate so unlike that which had fostered the ancestral Englishman, must inevitably have wrought important changes in the physical system of his descendant.
Quotes with DESCENDANT (3)
Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went to the stakes fighting for their truths.
CHAPTER 2: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDSALDO THE APACHEMy name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me 8 soldiers. 8 Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... killin' Nazis. Now, I don'…
The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1988–2005).