Descendant facts for kids

Descendant(s) or descendent(s) may refer to:

• Lineal descendant, a consanguinous (i.e. biological) relative directly related to a person
  • Collateral descendant, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor

Books

• "The Descendant" (short story), a short story by early 20th-century science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft
• The Descendants (novel), a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings

Film and television

• Descendant (2003 film), a thriller film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London
• Descendants (2008 film), an animated short film, Winner Tokyo Anime Award 2009
• Descendents (2008 film), a Chilean experimental horror film
• The Descendants, a 2011 American drama film directed by Alexander Payne with George Clooney
• The Descendants (2015 film), an Iranian film directed by Yaser Talebi
• Descendants (franchise), a Disney Channel television film franchise
  • Descendants (2015 film), the television film that started the above franchise
  • Descendants (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the television film
• Descendant (2022 film), Netflix documentary
• "Descendants", a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)

Music

• Descendents, a punk rock band from southern California

Other

• A type of node (element) in a tree structure
• A subordinate in a hierarchy
• Descendant (astrology), the western horizon-point directly opposite from the eastern horizon; also known as the ascendant (the rising sign); point at which the Sun sets in the west

See also

• Descendance, an Australian Aboriginal dance company formed in 1999
• Antonyms:
  • Ascendant
  • Ancestor