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- Dictionarydescend/dɪˈsɛnd/
verb
- 1. move or fall downwards: "the aircraft began to descend" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of a road, path, or flight of steps) slope or lead downwards: "a side road descended into the forest" Similar
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to go or come down: The path descended steeply into the valley. Jane descended the stairs. [ I ] literary. If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night. Fewer examples. She descended the sweeping staircase into the crowd of photographers and journalists.
to go or come down: The path descended steeply into the valley. Jane descended the stairs. [ I ] literary. If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night. Fewer examples. She descended the sweeping staircase into the crowd of photographers and journalists.
Descended definition: having a specified ancestry or ethnic origin. See examples of DESCENDED used in a sentence.
a. : to originate or come from an ancestral stock or source : derive. descends from an old merchant family. b. : to pass by inheritance. a desk that has descended in the family. c. : to pass by transmission. songs descended from old ballads. 4. a. : to incline, lead, or extend downward. the road descends to the river. b.
to pass from higher to lower in any scale or series. to go from generals to particulars, as in a discussion. to slope, tend, or lead downward: The path descends to the pond. to be inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family: The title descends through eldest sons.
To arrive or attack in a sudden or overwhelming manner: summer tourists descending on the seashore village. v.tr. 1. To move from a higher to lower part of; go down: I descended the staircase into the basement. 2. To extend or proceed downward along: a road that descended the mountain in sharp curves. Idiom: be descended from.
A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them. She is decended from some Scottish lord. American English : descended / dɪˈsɛndɪd /
[VERB noun] [ Also VERB] Synonyms: go down, come down, walk down, move down More Synonyms of descend. 2. verb. When a mood or atmosphere descends on a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them. [literary] An uneasy calm descended on the area. [V + on/upon/over] A reverent hush descended on the multitude.
Definition of descend verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
In its simplest sense, descend means to go or move downward, but there are a couple of subtle variations on this theme. Yes, a bird can descend from the sky, but also, humans are descended from prehistoric ancestors.
