descendant
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- antecedent antonym
- descend derivation
- descendant derivation
Sense 2 adjective
going or coming down
Related & opposite
- come down derivation
- descendinga similar to
Sense 3 adjective
proceeding by descent from an ancestor
descendent gene
Related & opposite
- descendant derivation
- related similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | antecedent |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | descend |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | descendant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | relative |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | child |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | come down |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | descendinga |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | descendant |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | related |