Ancestors
Descendant
Descendant noun - A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.
Ancestors is an antonym for descendant.
Both words in one sentence
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In the Disney Ducks Comic Universe he's featured as the one who first built a settlement in the area of present-day Duckburg, and his descendant Howard tries to make the descendants of the Mad Duke of Duckburg and his friend the Count of Bad Luck pay for how their ancestors outsmarted Drake.
Source: Useful Notes / Sir Francis Drake
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Descendant and Ancestors. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ancestors/descendant
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