Descent - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- properties attributable to your ancestry (syn: extraction, origin)
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors (syn: filiation, lineage)
- a downward slope or bend (syn: declension, declination, decline, declivity, fall)
- the descendants of one individual (syn: ancestry, blood, bloodline, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock)
Extra examples
The book describes his descent into a deep depression after the death of his wife.
The only path that goes down to the river is a rather steep descent, so be careful.
Massive ash-trees roll from the mountains down the descent.
The pilot spotted a large field and began the descent.
I would draw his descent from Hector, or Achilles.
Descent determines the specific character of the growth.
Her descent into drugs started at 13.
During the descent Tuckett and I were in the same cord with them.
A descent from the sublime to the ridiculous is quick.
The plane had gone into a steep descent.
They topped the rise (=reached the top of the hill) and began a slow descent towards the town.
Word forms
singular: descent
plural: descents
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