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Definition of 'descend'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) descend
to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down:
to descend from the mountaintop.

2.  descend
to pass from higher to lower in any scale or series.

3.  descend
to go from generals to particulars, as in a discussion.

4.  descend
to slope, tend, or lead downward:
The path descends to the pond.

5.  descend
to be inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family:
The title descends through eldest sons.

6.  descend
to be derived from something remote in time, esp. through continuous transmission:
a festival descending from a druidic rite.

7.  descend
to attack or approach as if attacking (usu. fol. by on or upon):
Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime.

8.  descend
to settle, as a cloud or vapor.

9.  descend
to sink or come down from a certain standard or level of behavior; stoop:
You must never descend to bickering.

10. (v.t.) descend
to move downward upon or along; go or climb down (stairs, a hill, etc.).

11.  descend
to extend or lead down along.

12.  descend
descend or be descended from, to have a certain ancestor or ancestry:
We are descended from the kings of Ireland.

Etymology: (1250–1300; < OF descendre < L dēscendere=dē-de - +-scendere, comb. form of scandere to climb)

Definition of 'descend'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) descend, fall, go down, come down
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
"The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

2. (verb) derive, come, descend
come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"

3. (verb) condescend, deign, descend
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

4. (verb) fall, descend, settle
come as if by falling
"Night fell"; "Silence fell"

Definition of 'descend'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) descend
≠ ascend
climbers descending the mountain; as the plane descended

2. descend
be descended from
to have sb as ancestors
African-Americans descended from slaves

Definition of 'descend'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) descend
to pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend

2. (verb) descend
to enter mentally; to retire

3. (verb) descend
to make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon

4. (verb) descend
to come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate

5. (verb) descend
to pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered

6. (verb) descend
to come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir

7. (verb) descend
to move toward the south, or to the southward

8. (verb) descend
to fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone

9. (verb) descend
to go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder

Translation of 'descend'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go or climb down from a higher place or position He descended the staircase.
Afrikaans: afklim	Arabic: يَنْزِلُ	Bulgarian: слизам
Brazilian: descer	Czech: sestoupit	German: heruntersteigen
Danish: gå ned ad	Greek: κατεβαίνω	Spanish: descender, bajar
Estonian: laskuma	Farsi: پایین رفتن؛ نزول کردن	Finnish: laskeutua
French: descendre	Hebrew: לָרֶדֶת	Hindi: उतरना
Croatian: sići, spustiti se	Hungarian: lemegy	Indonesian: menuruni
Icelandic: koma niður	Italian: discendere, scendere	Japanese: 降りる
Korean: 내려가다	Lithuanian: nusileisti	Latvian: nokāpt; nolaisties
Malay: turun	Dutch: afdalen	Norwegian: gå/stige ned, dale, synke
Polish: schodzić	Persian: پایین رفتن؛ نزول کردن	Pashto: كښته كېدل، له يوى ګنډى څخ
Portuguese: descer	Romanian: a coborî	Russian: спускаться
Slovak: zostúpiť	Slovenian: spustiti se	Serbian: sići
Swedish: gå (komma, fara) ner, sti	Thai: ลงมา	Turkish: inmek
Taiwanese: 下來	Ukrainian: спускатися; сходити	Urdu: اونچے مقام سے نیچے کی طرف
Vietnamese: xuống	Chinese: 下来
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