DESCENT
Definition:
- [noun] a movement downward
- [noun] properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
Synonyms: origin, extraction
- [noun] the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- [noun] the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Synonyms: line of lineage, filiation
- [noun] a downward slope or bend
Synonyms: declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
- [noun] the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
Synonyms: lineage, line, line of bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
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Related Words:
- drop, fall
- lightening
- set
- shower, cascade
- sinking
- slide
- full blood
- abseil
- jump, parachuting
- dive, nose dive
- swoop
- crash dive
- drop
- flop, collapse
- bilateral descent
- unilateral descent
- downhill
- steep
- family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
- breed
- side
