| descent | | |
| n. (event) | 1. descent | a movement downward. |
| ~ change of location, travel | a movement through space that changes the location of something. |
| ~ drop, fall | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" |
| ~ lightening | descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped. |
| ~ set | the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon.; "before the set of sun" |
| ~ cascade, shower | a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower.; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks" |
| ~ sinking | a descent as through liquid (especially through water).; "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic" |
| ~ slide | (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. descent, extraction, origin | properties attributable to your ancestry.; "he comes from good origins" |
| ~ ancestry, filiation, derivation, lineage | inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline. |
| ~ full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed. |
| n. (act) | 3. descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction. |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| ~ parachuting, jump | descent with a parachute.; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" |
| ~ nose dive, nosedive, dive | a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft. |
| ~ abseil, rappel | (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body. |
| ~ swoop | a swift descent through the air. |
| ~ crash dive | a rapid descent by a submarine. |
| ~ drop | the act of dropping something.; "they expected the drop would be successful" |
| ~ collapse, flop | the act of throwing yourself down.; "he landed on the bed with a great flop" |
| n. (linkdef) | 4. descent, filiation, line of descent, lineage | the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors. |
| ~ family relationship, kinship, relationship | (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption. |
| ~ bilateral descent | line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family. |
| ~ unilateral descent | line of descent traced through one side of the family. |
| n. (object) | 5. declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall | a downward slope or bend. |
| ~ downhill | the downward slope of a hill. |
| ~ incline, slope, side | an elevated geological formation.; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" |
| ~ steep | a steep place (as on a hill). |
| n. (group) | 6. ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| ~ family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, folk, family | people descended from a common ancestor.; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| ~ side | a family line of descent.; "he gets his brains from his father's side" |
| ~ family tree, genealogy | successive generations of kin. |
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