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Definition of 'descent'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) descent
the act, process, or fact of descending.

2.  descent
a downward inclination or slope.

3.  descent
a passage or stairway leading down.

4.  descent
derivation from an ancestor; lineage; extraction.

5.  descent
any passing from higher to lower in degree or state; decline.

6.  descent
a sudden raid or hostile attack.

7.  descent
transmission of real property by intestate succession.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME < AF, OF descente, der. of descendre to descend)

Definition of 'descent'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) descent
a movement downward

2. (noun) origin, descent, extraction
properties attributable to your ancestry
"he comes from good origins"

3. (noun) descent
the act of changing your location in a downward direction

4. (noun) descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

5. (noun) descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
a downward slope or bend

6. (noun) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors"

Definition of 'descent'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) descent
≠ ascent
a slow descent down the mountain

2. descent
of ... descent
indicates the group of people sb comes from
students of Native American descent

Definition of 'descent'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) descent
the act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower

2. (noun) descent
incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy

3. (noun) descent
progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc

4. (noun) descent
derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction

5. (noun) descent
transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity

6. (noun) descent
inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent

7. (noun) descent
that which is descended; descendants; issue

8. (noun) descent
a step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation

9. (noun) descent
lowest place; extreme downward place

10. (noun) descent
a passing from a higher to a lower tone

Translation of 'descent'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the act of descending The descent of the hill was quickly completed.
Afrikaans: afdaling, neerdaling	Arabic: إنْحِدار	Bulgarian: спускане
Brazilian: descida	Czech: sestup	German: der Abstieg
Danish: nedstigning	Greek: κάθοδος	Spanish: descenso
Estonian: laskumine	Farsi: نزول؛ فروروی	Finnish: laskeutuminen
French: descente	Hebrew: יְרִידָה	Hindi: उतार
Croatian: spuštanje	Hungarian: leereszkedés	Indonesian: penurunan
Icelandic: niðurferð, niðurkoma	Italian: discesa	Japanese: 降下
Korean: 내리막	Lithuanian: nusileidimas	Latvian: nokāpšana; nolaišanās
Malay: turun	Dutch: afdaling	Norwegian: nedstigning
Polish: zejście	Persian: نزول؛ فروروی	Pashto: لوېدنه، كوزېدنه،كښته كېدن
Portuguese: descida	Romanian: coborâre	Russian: спуск
Slovak: zostup	Slovenian: sestop	Serbian: spuštanje
Swedish: nedstigande, nedgång, ned	Thai: ทางลง	Turkish: iniş
Taiwanese: 下降	Ukrainian: спуск; зниження	Urdu: اترنے کا عمل
Vietnamese: sự đi xuống	Chinese: 下降
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