descent

Meaning of descent

noun
  1. an act of moving downwards, 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.
    the settlers were of Cornish descent
  3. a sudden violent attack.
    a descent on the Channel ports

Middle English: from Old French descente, from descendre ‘to descend’ (see descend).

Information about descent

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of descent is: descents.
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Hyphenation of descent

de-scent

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • descent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

descent synonyms

Meaning origin:

origin, extraction

Meaning line of descent:

lineage, filiation

Meaning declivity:

declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope

Meaning lineage:

lineage, line, bloodline, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

Meaning an abrupt or steep fall or slope:

drop

Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:

sinking

Meaning become less intense, violent, or severe:

subsiding

Meaning a plunge head first into water:

dive

Meaning the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone:

pitch

Meaning a sudden severe or prolonged fall in the price, value, or amount of something:

slump

Meaning moving or sloping downwards:

descending

Meaning a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended:

ancestors

Meaning all the descendants of a common ancestor:

family

Meaning the formation of a word from another word or from a root in the same or another language:

derivation

Meaning a person's origin, descent, or ancestry:

birth

Meaning a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor:

genealogy

Meaning the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another:

heredity

Meaning the right or sequence of inheriting a position, title, etc:

succession

Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:

strain

Meaning the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres:

roots

Meaning a person's social background or ancestry:

origins

Meaning a member of the past generations of one's family or people; an ancestor:

forefathers

Meaning a person's ancestors or family and social background:

antecedents

Meaning an aggressive and violent act against a person or place:

attack

Meaning a physical attack:

assault

Meaning a rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces:

raid

Meaning a fierce or destructive attack:

onslaught

Meaning a price asked for goods or services:

charge

Meaning a sudden or violent lunge with a pointed weapon or a bodily part:

thrust

Meaning an act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself:

push

Meaning a trip or journey in a car:

drive

Meaning an invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one:

incursion

Meaning a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something; a raid:

foray

Meaning an attack made by troops coming out from a position of defence:

sortie

Meaning a sudden charge out of a besieged place against the enemy; a sortie:

sally

Meaning the sudden forceful attack and capture of a building or other place by troops:

storming

Meaning make a concerted or violent attack on:

assailing

descent antonyms

Meaning a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill:

ascent

Meaning an ascent, especially of a mountain or hill, by climbing:

climb

Translation of descent

Anagrams of descent

scented

Words that rhyme with descent

cent, adjacent, circumadjacent, circumjacent, coadjacent, complacent, equijacent, interjacent, jacent, nonadjacent, noncomplacent, overcomplacent, placent, postjacent, prejacent, subadjacent, subjacent, subterjacent, superadjacent, superjacent, unadjacent, uncomplacent, accent, misaccent, nonaccent, reaccent, succent, unaccent, Melecent, Millecent, Recent, condecent, decent, indecent, nonrecent, precent, recent, undecent, unrecent, Melicent, Mellicent, Milicent, Millicent, addicent, beneficent, conticent, insufficent, irreticent, luminificent, magnificent

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