C2a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild子孙,后代
He has no descendants.他没有后代。
They claim to be descendants of a French duke.他们自称是一位法国公爵的后代。
We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in.给子孙后代留下一个清洁的生活环境是我们的职责。