descent
Significado de descent
n.Descendência, descida, declínio.
n.The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
That which is descended; descendants; issue.
A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Lowest place; extreme downward place.1
A passing from a higher to a lower tone
change of location generic term, travel generic term noun, origin, extraction, ancestry generic term, lineage generic term, derivation generic term, filiation generic term noun, motion generic term, movement generic term, move generic term noun, line of descent, lineage, filiation, kinship generic term, family relationship generic term, relationship generic term noun, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope, slope generic term, incline generic term, side generic term, ascent antonym noun, lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock, genealogy generic term, family tree generic term
Vogais: ee
Consoantes: dscnt
Palavras Parecidas
decent, dehiscent, descant, descend, desinent, decant, docent, descanted, descended, desiccant.
