Descendant
Descendant noun - A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.
Father is an antonym for descendant.
Father
Father noun - A person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent.
Usage example: our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right
Descendant is an antonym for father in male person who begets children topic.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Jewish society played this trope straight, so how could God have Jesus be both biological descendant and legal heir of King David when he has no biological human father?
Source: Lineage Comes from the Father - The father eventually turns out to be a very powerful demon of lust and his mother turns out to be a descendant of Cthulhu who slowly turns into a Deep One.
Source: Mysterious Parent -
Not exactly rags, since her father was a self-made millionaire, but she still was a descendant of Irish bricklayers, and became a princess by marriage.
Source: Rags to Royalty
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