| 释义 |
Noun: descent di'sent- A movement downward
- Properties attributable to your ancestry
- origin, extraction - The act of changing your location in a downward direction
- The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- line of descent, lineage, filiation - A downward slope or bend
- declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope - 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 |