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- Dictionarydescent/dɪˈsɛnt/
noun
- 1. an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling: "the plane had gone into a steep descent" Similar Opposite
- 2. the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality: "the settlers were of Cornish descent" Similar
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the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past: of African, European, Asian, etc. descent There are more than a hundred million people of African descent in Latin America. The disease is most common among people of northern European descent.
The meaning of DESCENT is derivation from an ancestor : birth, lineage. How to use descent in a sentence.
Descent definition: the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position.. See examples of DESCENT used in a sentence.
A descent is a surface that slopes downwards, for example the side of a steep hill. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed.
noun. properties attributable to your ancestry. synonyms: extraction, origin. see more. noun. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors. synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage. see more. noun. the descendants of one individual.
1. The act or an instance of descending: the slow descent of the scuba divers. 2. a. A way down: fashioned a descent with an ice axe. b. A downward incline or passage; a slope: watched the stones roll down the descent. 3. Hereditary derivation; lineage: a person of African descent. 4.
noun. /dɪˈsent/. /dɪˈsent/. [countable, usually singular] an action of coming or going down. The plane began its descent to Heathrow. (figurative) the country’s swift descent into anarchy. opposite ascent. Extra Examples. The engines failed on the plane's descent to Newark.
DESCENT definition: 1. a movement down: 2. being related to people who lived in the past in Ireland/France, etc: . Learn more.
descent meaning, definition, what is descent: the process of going down: Learn more.
1. A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. [...] 2. A descent is a surface that slopes downward, for example, the side of a steep hill. [...] 3. When you want to emphasize that a situation becomes very bad, you can talk about someone's or something's descent into that situation. [emphasis] [...] More.
