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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.
1. a. : derivation from an ancestor : birth, lineage. of French descent. patrilineal descent. b. : transmission or devolution of an estate (see estate entry 1 sense 4b) by inheritance usually in the descending line. c. : the fact or process of originating from an ancestral stock. the descent of modern humans and chimpanzees from a common ancestor.
If you’re on your way down, you’re making a descent, whether that’s as a passenger in an airplane that's landing, or if you’re tumbling down a staircase you just slipped on. Descent comes from the verb descend — to go down.
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 surface that slopes downwards, for example the side of a steep hill. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed. When you want to emphasize that a situation becomes very bad, you can talk about someone's or something's descent into that situation.
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.
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.
Definition of descent noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
DESCENT definition: 1. a movement down: 2. being related to people who lived in the past in Ireland/France, etc: . Learn more.
You use descent to talk about a person's family background, for example, their nationality or social status. [ formal ] All the contributors were of African descent.
