descent   (Sound)

The noun descent has 6 senses

• descent -- (a movement downward)


• origin, descent, extraction -- (properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins")


• descent -- (the act of changing your location in a downward direction)


• descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation -- (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)


• descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope -- (a downward slope or bend)


• lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock -- (the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors")