1. A movement downward 
2. Properties attributable to your ancestry
   - origin, extraction 
3. The act of changing your location in a downward direction 
4. The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
   - line of descent, lineage, filiation 
5. A downward slope or bend
   - declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope 
6. The descendants of one individual
   - lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

Sounds like: dissent

Derived forms: descents

See also: descend

Type of: ancestry, change of location, derivation, family relationship, family tree, filiation, genealogy, incline, kinship, lineage, motion, move, movement, relationship, side, slope, travel

Antonym: ascent

Encyclopedia: Descent

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