Descendant(s) or descendent(s) may refer to:
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Lineal descendant
A lineal descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person. In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by in ...
, a consanguinous (i.e. biological) relative directly related to a person
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Collateral descendant, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor
Books
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"The Descendant" (short story), a short story by early 20th-century science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft
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''The Descendants'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Film and television
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''Descendant'' (2003 film), a thriller film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London
* ''Descendants'' (2008 film), an animated short film, Winner
Tokyo Anime Award 2009
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''Descendents'' (2008 film), a Chilean experimental horror film
* ''
The Descendants'', a 2011 American drama film directed by Alexander Payne with George Clooney
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''The Descendants'' (2015 film), an Iranian film directed by Yaser Talebi
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''Descendants'' (franchise), a Disney Channel television film franchise
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''Descendants'' (2015 film), the television film that started the above franchise
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Descendants (soundtrack)'', the soundtrack for the television film
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Descendant (2022 film), Netflix documentary
Music
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Descendents, a punk rock band from southern California
Other
* A type of node (element) in a
tree structure
A tree structure, tree diagram, or tree model is a way of representing the hierarchical nature of a structure in a graphical form. It is named a "tree structure" because the classic representation resembles a tree, although the chart is gener ...
* A subordinate in a
hierarchy
A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...
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Descendant (astrology), the point directly opposite from the Ascendant (the Rising Sign)
See also
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Descendance, an Australian Aboriginal dance company formed in 1999
* Antonyms:
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Ascendant
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Ancestor
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom ...
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