Synonyms for descendants
de·scen·dants

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1. descendants, posteritynoun

   all of the offspring of a given progenitor

   "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

   Synonyms:
   posterity

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1. • Biological Group

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1. descendantsnoun

   Synonyms:
   progeny, posterity, offspring

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1. descendantsnoun

   Synonyms:
   progeny, posterity, offspring

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1. List of paraphrases for "descendants":

   descendents, descendant, progenies, downdrafts, heirs, downshifts, nuclides

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1. Mo Brooks:

   Now, our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes, and sometimes their lives, to give us, their descendants, an America that is the greatest nation in world history. So I have a question for you : Are you willing to do the same ?

2. George Washington:

   [T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.

3. Xu Xing:

   Over the last 30 years, there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs.

4. George Santos:

   My grandfather was born in Kyivand left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started a family, we don’t carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival.

5. Mathew Morris:

   We know little about (Emma) and a lack of fundamental information, such as her age at death, what she did for a living, what she looked like or where in the church she was buried, coupled with no known descendants who can provide a DNA sample, make it impossible to say for certain (if the skeleton) is that of Emma.