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English noun: descent | |||
| 1. | descent (event) a movement downward | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change of location, travel | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cascade, drop, fall, lightening, set, shower, sinking, slide | ||
| 2. | descent (attribute) properties attributable to your ancestry | ||
| Samples | He comes from good origins. | ||
| Synonyms | extraction, origin | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | full blood | ||
| 3. | descent (act) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | motion, move, movement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abseil, collapse, crash dive, dive, drop, flop, jump, nose dive, nosedive, parachuting, rappel, swoop | ||
| 4. | descent the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | ||
| Synonyms | filiation, line of descent, lineage | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | family relationship, kinship, relationship | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bilateral descent, unilateral descent | ||
| 5. | descent (object) a downward slope or bend | ||
| Synonyms | declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | incline, side, slope | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | downhill, steep | ||
| Antonyms | acclivity, ascent, climb, upgrade, raise, rise | ||
| 6. | descent (group) the descendants of one individual | ||
| Samples | His entire lineage has been warriors. | ||
| Synonyms | ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | family tree, genealogy | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side | ||
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