descent

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noun

1. a movement downward (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
descend
• Hypernyms:
change of location, travel
• Hyponyms:
drop, fall, lightening, set, shower,
cascade, sinking, slide
2. properties attributable to your ancestry (Freq. 2)
- he comes from good origins
• Syn:
origin, extraction
• Hypernyms:
ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
• Hyponyms:
full blood
3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
motion, movement, move
• Hyponyms:
jump, parachuting, dive, nose dive, nosedive,
nosedive, abseil, swoop, crash dive, drop,
flop, collapse
4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
• Syn:
line of descent, lineage, filiation
• Derivationally related forms:
filiate (for: filiation), descend
• Hypernyms:
kinship, family relationship, relationship
• Hyponyms:
bilateral descent, unilateral descent
5. a downward slope or bend
• Syn:
declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
• Ant:
ascent
• Derivationally related forms:
decline (for: declension), decline (for: declination), decline (for: decline), fall (for: fall), declivitous (for: declivity)
• Hypernyms:
slope, incline, side
• Hyponyms:
downhill, steep
6. the descendants of one individual
- his entire lineage has been warriors
• Syn:
lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line,
blood line, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage,
stemma, stock
• Derivationally related forms:
parent (for: parentage), descend, lineal (for: line)
• Hypernyms:
genealogy, family tree
• Hyponyms:
family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk,
sept, phratry, side

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope, line of descent, lineage, filiation, origin, extraction
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade