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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
Andre Dubus III

Meaning of "descent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESCENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESCENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Descent is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESCENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Descent

Descent may refer to: In genealogy and inheritance: ▪ Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology ▪ Kinship and descent, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology ▪ Pedigree chart or family tree ▪ Ancestry ▪ Heritage ▪ Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch ▪ Phylogenetics ▪ Tree diagram ▪ Inheritance In mathematics: ▪ Infinite descent, a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations ▪ Descent, an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology ▪ Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving partial differential equations ▪ Gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton ▪ Descents in permutations, a classical permutation statistic in combinatorics Other uses: ▪ Descent, the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight ▪ Descent, the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography...

Definition of descent in the English dictionary

The first definition of descent in the dictionary is the act of descending. Other definition of descent is a downward slope or inclination. Descent is also a passage, path, or way leading downwards.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESCENT


ascent
əˈsɛnt
assent
əˈsɛnt
cent
sɛnt
concent
kənˈsɛnt
consent
kənˈsɛnt
disconsent
ˌdɪskənˈsɛnt
dissent
dɪˈsɛnt
incent
ɪnˈsɛnt
Pinsent
ˈpɪnˌsɛnt
scent
sɛnt
sent
sɛnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESCENT

descend
descendable
descendant
descended
descendent
descender
descendeur
descendible
descending
descension
descensional
Deschamps
deschool
deschooler
descramble
descrambler
describable
describe
describer
descried

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESCENT

adolescent
chemiluminescent
convalescent
crescent
effervescent
Fertile Crescent
fluorescent
incandescent
iridescent
line of descent
luminescent
nascent
pearlescent
photoluminescent
prepubescent
quiescent
recent
Red Crescent
reminiscent
senescent
the crescent

Synonyms and antonyms of descent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DESCENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «descent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of descent

Translation of «descent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESCENT

Find out the translation of descent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of descent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «descent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

下降
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descenso
570 millions of speakers

English

descent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वंश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النسب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

спуск
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

declive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোত্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

descente
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keturunan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abstieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

降下
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하강
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Keturunan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வம்சாவளியை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कूळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iniş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

discesa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zejście
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спуск
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coborâre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάθοδος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afkoms
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nedstigning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nedstigningen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of descent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCENT»

The term «descent» is very widely used and occupies the 16.164 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESCENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «descent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «descent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about descent

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10 QUOTES WITH «DESCENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word descent.
1
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
2
Anaxagoras
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
3
Lemon Andersen
I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.
4
Timothy Garton Ash
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
5
William Henry Ashley
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
6
Giordano Bruno
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.
7
Tia Carrere
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
8
Chip Conley
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.
9
Andre Dubus III
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
10
Danai Gurira
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCENT»

Discover the use of descent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to descent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Descent
And finally, The Descent is the story of a man and woman who enter the maze of the underworld and find at its center the human heart.
Jeff Long, 1999
2
Descent
Part of a series inspired by key events in the New Testament, this bookresents a sequence of over 100 great works of art depicting the moving finalcene of Christ's earthly sojourn - the removal of His body from the Cross.
Phaidon Press, 2000
3
Descent
Speed, competition, danger, and sex…Shannon Roberts has it all, just the way she wants it…on her terms.
Julie Cannon, 2010
4
The Descent of Man: Part Two
On-line version of Charles Darwin's Descent of man.
Charles Darwin, 1902
5
The Dark Descent
Traces the evolution of the horror story by presenting an anthology of works from the past and from current writers, with contributions from Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Grant, and Clive Barker
David G. Hartwell, 1997
6
Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the ...
In this new, muscular intervention, Pollin explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.
Robert Pollin, 2005
7
My Descent Into Death: And the Message of Love Which Brought ...
For years Howard Storm lived the American dream.
Howard Storm, 2008
8
Descent
The Borg are back -- and nastier than ever.
Diane Carey, 2012
9
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
Describes the scientific accomplishments of William Beebe and Otis Barton, two pioneering oceanographers who in 1930 made their first descent into the depths of the ocean in the bathysphere, in the process paving the way for future deep-sea ...
Bradford Matsen, 2006
10
First Descent
Pam Withers’ skill at writing about extreme adventures combines with a compelling story about an endangered world and a people struggling for their very right to exist. From the Hardcover edition.
Pam Withers, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESCENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term descent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Europeans told to bring Greece back from the brink and avoid …
Europeans told to bring Greece back from the brink and avoid descent into 'uncontrolled' Grexit. White House escalates warnings about ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
OP ED: Botched, Bewildering, Descent into Guantanamo Torture
“The existence of the approximately 14,000 photographs will probably cause yet another delay in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, ... «HNN Huntingtonnews.net, Jul 15»
3
Comstock's $115 Million Liquidity Booster Already On Descent To …
Comstock Resources Inc. (CRK) started out the month pocketing $115 million for its East Texas Eagle Ford assets in and around Burleson ... «Oil and Gas Investor, Jul 15»
4
People of Irish Catholic descent will be able to trace ancestry back to …
People with Irish Catholic ancestors will be to trace their roots back to the 1740s online. The entire collection of Catholic parish register ... «Irish Mirror, Jul 15»
5
Locals bag first Elk SUP descent
It's all how you package the accolades. While the Elk River has been kayaked and rafted for decades, this spring a group of local adventurers ... «Steamboat Pilot & Today, Jul 15»
6
The Debilitating Drachma-tic Descent of Greece
The Debilitating Drachma-tic Descent of Greece. An update on the Greek financial crisis, an unconventional lending strategy, and what to ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
7
Shake Shack's Great Ascent and Descent
The share price increase in Shake Shack (SHAK) may be an outcome of high growth expectations from Shake Shack. In the week leading up to ... «Market Realist, Jul 15»
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PositiveID Corp (OTCMKTS:PSID) Can't Stop Its Descent
PositiveID Corp (OTCMKTS:PSID, PSID message board) lost another 13.43% of its market cap on Thursday in its third bright red session in a ... «HotStocked, Jul 15»
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From Beneath learns from Amnesia: The Dark Descent for its …
If you've played classic horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent on PC then you'll know how well this sanity mechanic can work. Hopefully it ... «Pocket Gamer, Jul 15»
10
Democrats woo potential voters of South Asian descent
Almost a year after its Hudson County debut, the South Asian American Caucus, part of the N.J. State Democratic Committee, formally took off ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»

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