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. Juan Hidalberto Hernandez:

   This is a historic event for the church, many families and their descendants left their saints behind and didnt have a church to pray in.

2. Janice Hahn:

   The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires.

3. Xu Xing:

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

4. German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters:

   We will do everything in our powers to return art looted by the Nazis to the descendants of the Nazi regime's victims as quickly as possible.

5. Scott Applewhite:

   The collective amount required to close the disparity for approximately 40 million black American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States will come to at least $14 trillion, this is a sum that cannot be met reasonably by private donors or other levels of government.