descent

Meaning

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

Synonyms

lineage

origin

ancestry

fall

pedigree

declivity

decline

extraction

parentage

family

👪

stock

line of descent

line

slope

birth

source

going down

blood

🩸

downslope

downhill

bloodline

race

downward slope

subsidence

sinking

dip

blood line

descending

landing

filiation

derivation

falling

alighting

declination

declension

drop

stemma

strain

relegation

lowering

clan

kind

emanation

dropping

decrease

provenance

debarkation

cut

curtailment

couching

Translations

descente

discesa

descenso

Abstieg

origine

descendance

bajada

Abstammung

Herkunft

afdaling

κατάβαση

discendenza

origen

abaissement

calata

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈsɛnt/

Etymology

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