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- Descent(noun)the act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower
- Descent(noun)incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy
- Descent(noun)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
- Descent(noun)derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction
- Descent(noun)transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity
- Descent(noun)inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent
- Descent(noun)that which is descended; descendants; issue
- Descent(noun)a step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation
- Descent(noun)lowest place; extreme downward place
- Descent(noun)a passing from a higher to a lower tone
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Wikipedia Etymology[edit]
From Middle English and Anglo-Normandescente, from Anglo-Normandescendre(“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK)IPA(key): /dɪˈsɛnt/
Audio (US) - Homophones: dissent(for some dialects)
Noun[edit]
descent (countable and uncountable, pluraldescents)
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent.
- A waydown.
- We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.
- A slopingpassage or incline.
- The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
- Lineage or hereditaryderivation.
- Our guide was of Welsh descent.
- A drop to a lowerstatus or condition; decline. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.
- A falling upon or invasion.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).
Usage notes[edit]
- Sometimes confused with decent.
Antonyms[edit]
- (going down):ascent
Derived terms[edit]
- hypodescent, hyperdescent
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Further reading[edit]
- descent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- descent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams[edit]
- cedents, scented
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