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descent
Found in thesaurus: travel, change of location, ancestry, filiation, lineage, derivation, motion, move, movement, kinship, family relationship, relationship, side, slope, incline, genealogy, family tree
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descent
n.
going down; downward slope; lineage; sudden attack; handing down of property; act of lowering oneself morally
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Descent
Descent may refer to:
As a noun
In genealogy and inheritance:- Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology
- Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology
- Pedigree chart or family tree
- Ancestry
- Heritage
- Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch
- Phylogenetics
- Inheritance (law and property)
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descent
Noun
1. a movement downward
(hypernym) change of location, travel
(hyponym) drop, fall
(derivation) descend, fall, go down, come down
2. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
(synonym) origin, extraction
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(hyponym) full blood
3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
(hypernym) motion, movement, move
(hyponym) abseil
4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
(synonym) line of descent, lineage, filiation
(hypernym) kinship, family relationship, relationship
(hyponym) bilateral descent
(derivation) derive, come, descend
5. a downward slope or bend
(synonym) declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
(antonym) ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
(hypernym) slope, incline, side
(hyponym) downhill
6. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
(derivation) derive, come, descend
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descent
n.
původ; sestup
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descent
Rzecz.
obniżenie; zejście; pochodzenie
