descent

Significat (anglès)

1. An instance of descending; act of coming down.
2. A way down.
3. A sloping passage or incline.
4. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
5. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
6. A falling upon or invasion.
7. A particular extension of the idea of gluing.

Sinònims

lineage

origin

ancestry

fall

pedigree

declivity

extraction

decline

parentage

family

👪

line of descent

stock

slope

line

blood

🩸

going down

downhill

downslope

birth

bloodline

source

subsidence

falling

declination

dip

race

filiation

alighting

sinking

derivation

drop

landing

descending

blood line

downward slope

declension

decrease

provenance

strain

stemma

emanation

kind

clan

lowering

relegation

dropping

falling down

falloff

genealogy

genesis

get down

hang

harrowing of hell

heritage

hillside

humiliation

incarnation

inclination

infall

invoice

linkage

original

origination

origins

paternity

place of origin

prolapse

provenience

pulling down

quality

raid

ramp

rappel

reduction

relationship

release

retrenchment

root

ruin

set

setting

settling

son

sort

species

splashdown

steepness

swoop

tally

touchdown

type

waning

degression

reduction to the ranks

rampway

family line

blood-lines

downdraught

depression

abasement

down current

abatement

abjection

abjectness

abseil

advent

adversity

alight

appearance

assault

bill

blood relation

caste

cathode

check

child

🧒

chit

class

climb-down

comedown

coming down

couching

curtailment

cut

debarkation

decay

decrepitude

degenerating

degradation

demotion

derogation

destruction

deterioration

diminishment

dismount

dismounting

disrating

dive

down

downdraft

downfall

downturn

downward

drop-off

ebb

failure

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dɪˈsɛnt/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English and Anglo-Norman descente, from Anglo-Norman descendre (“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend. Doublet of desant.