declension
Meaning of declension
- (in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified.
- a condition of decline or moral deterioration.
the declension of the new generation
late Middle English declinson, from Old French declinaison, from decliner ‘to decline’. The change in the ending was probably due to association with words such as ascension .
Information about declension
- It is a name.
- The plural form of declension is: declensions.
- Languages in which declension is used:
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Hyphenation of declension
de-clen-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- declension is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
declension synonyms
Meaning deterioration:
Meaning descent:
descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, downslope
Translation of declension
- French: déclinaison
- German: Deklination
- Spanish: declinación
- Italian: declinazione
Anagrams of declension
Words that rhyme with declension
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion