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. 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. Thomas Paine:

   This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

2. Rue Simmons:

   It is a $25,000 direct benefit to build wealth through home equity, black Residents that lived in Evanston during the period of harm, which was 1919 - 1969, or their direct descendants are eligible.

3. Paul Kyumin Lee:

   The most urgent thing in my view is that we have to help provide closure by helping record their stories to the next generation and their family members in North Korea so that one day, we can deliver their messages or letters to them or even their descendants in North Korea.

4. Plato:

   Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

5. Xu Xing:

   It's a failed experiment, it's an evolutionary dead end, over the last 30 years, there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs.