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- DictionaryDe·scent/dəˈsent/
noun
- 1. an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling: "the plane had gone into a steep descent"
- 2. the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality: "American families of Hungarian descent"
The meaning of DESCENT is derivation from an ancestor : birth, lineage. How to use descent in a sentence.
DESCENT definition: 1. the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the…. Learn more.
noun. the descendants of one individual. synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock. see more. Pronunciation. US. /dɪˈsɛnt/
noun. the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: drop, fall. a downward inclination or slope. Synonyms: slant, declivity, grade, decline. a passage or stairway leading down. derivation from an ancestor; lineage; extraction. Synonyms: origin, parentage, ancestry.
Origin of Descent. From Middle English and Anglo-Norman descente, from Anglo-Norman descendre (“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend.
A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. During their descent from the summit, a storm swept in. ...the crash of an Airbus A300 on its descent into Kathmandu airport.
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.
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.
noun [ C, U ] uk / dɪˈsent / us. Add to word list. a movement down: The plane began its descent into Heathrow. of Irish/French, etc descent. being related to people who lived in the past in Ireland/France, etc: Most of the workers were of Spanish descent.
