Descendant vs. Ancestor

Descendantadjective

descending from a biological ancestor.

Descendantadjective

proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.

Descendantnoun

(literally) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

Descendantnoun

(figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.

Descendantnoun

(biology) A later evolutionary type.

Descendantnoun

(linguistics) A language that is descended from another.

Descendantnoun

(linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.

Descendantadjective

Descendent.

Descendantnoun

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; - correlative to ancestor or ascendant.

Descendantnoun

a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race

Descendantadjective

going or coming down

Ancestornoun

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.

Ancestornoun

An earlier type; a progenitor

Ancestornoun

(legal) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.

Ancestornoun

(figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.

Ancestornoun

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Ancestornoun

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

Ancestornoun

One from whom an estate has descended; - the correlative of heir.

Ancestornoun

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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 one is descended.