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- Dictionarydescent/dɪˈsɛnt/
noun
- 1. an act of moving downwards, 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: "the settlers were of Cornish descent" Similar
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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.
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.
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.
A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. During the descent three people collapsed in the cold and rain. American English : descent / dɪˈsɛnt /
Definition of descent noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and 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.
1. A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. [...] 2. A descent is a surface that slopes downward, for example, the side of a steep hill. [...] 3. When you want to emphasize that a situation becomes very bad, you can talk about someone's or something's descent into that situation. [emphasis] [...] More.
DESCENT definition: 1. a movement down: 2. being related to people who lived in the past in Ireland/France, etc: . Learn more.
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.
