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descent

English

  1. 🔊 the act of changing your location in a downward direction
  2. 🔊 a movement downward
  3. 🔊 a downward slope or bend
  4. 🔊 the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  5. 🔊 properties attributable to your ancestry
    “he comes from good origins”
  6. 🔊 the descendants of one individual
    “his entire lineage has been warriors”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 descendimiento descent
  2. 🔊 descenso descent
  3. 🔊 prolapso descent
  4. 🔊 progenie descent, lineage

Similar words

origin extraction lineage line line of descent bloodline blood line blood pedigree ancestry origin parentage stemma stock declivity fall decline declination declension downslope line of descent lineage filiation brownian movement