Descent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESCENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of descending
• an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling
• a downward slope
• a moral, social, or psychological decline
• the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality
• the transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance.
• a sudden violent attack
• an unexpected visit
• 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.
• A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
• a movement downward
• properties attributable to your ancestry
• the act of changing your location in a downward direction
• the kinship relation between an individual and the individual\'s progenitors
• a downward slope or bend
• the descendants of one individual
• descending

Words related to DESCENT

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How to use DESCENT in a sentence

• During those twelve years Beauchene had pursued a downward course, the descent of which was fatal.
• The depth of the descent illustrates the height he falls from.
• He was a courtier, not by descent or breeding, but by genius.
• The descent of the bed of the stream is very marked.
• Then he resolutely dropped his eyes and resumed the descent.
• DESCENT FROM THE SANDSTONE RANGE INTO THE LOW COUNTRY.
• The law of hereditary descent had placed this semi-idiot upon the throne of Spain to control the destinies of twenty millions of people.
• To restrain himself from a quick descent upon her position and a boyish sweeping of her up in his powerful arms was taxing the utmost of his self-control.
• Before the winter was half over she had found out how rapid is the descent from good report.
• Other avenues could most likely be found by sounding the sides of the pit, if any one had the courage to attempt the descent.
• The descent was a little difficult to accomplish noiselessly, as I had to drop some feet, but I managed it.
• And since Collatinus, the consul, was by descent a Tarquin, even he was obliged to give up his office and return to Collatia.
• Jessie listened to the story of the descent of the Bell River Indians to the region of the Fort with feelings no less disturbed than those of the colored woman.
• One effect of the descent of the crown to a female was the separation from it of Hanover, after an union which had lasted for nearly a century and a quarter.
• He gathered in Brest 20,000 troops, ostensibly for a descent upon Ireland.
• His ancestors, so far as known, in all the line of descent, were New England farmers.
• It is a source of just pride that a New England commander, and one of Massachusetts descent, General Terry, was successful in the new attempt.
• Lady Margaret Burnet was dying when he left England, and n Holland he married a Dutch heiress of Scottish descent, Mary Scott.
• The tribe of Tunguses for instance, is certainly of Chinese descent, and the tribe of Yakuts is certainly Turkish.
• Hans Poulsen Egede, the apostle of Greenland, was a Norwegian of Danish descent.
• The descent was very steep, and amounted to about 1,200 feet.
• It was one of those old sliding trap affairs, narrow and steep of descent.
• The blaze had ceased to be visible when they came to the last descent towards the village.

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