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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" Similar Opposite
- 2. the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality: "American families of Hungarian descent" Similar
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The meaning of DESCENT is derivation from an ancestor : birth, lineage. How to use descent in a sentence.
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.
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.
noun. the act of descending. a downward slope or inclination. a passage, path, or way leading downwards. derivation from an ancestor or ancestral group; lineage. (in genealogy) a generation in a particular lineage. a decline or degeneration. a movement or passage in degree or state from higher to lower.
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.
n. 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.
Definition of descent noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
descent meaning, definition, what is descent: the process of going down: Learn more.
Descent Sentence Examples. The descent felt as long as their two day trip. They began the long descent, hand in hand. The flakes drifted directly down, undisturbed in their descent by any hint of a breeze in the still night air.
DESCENT definition: 1. a movement down: 2. being related to people who lived in the past in Ireland/France, etc: . Learn more.
