Australian English Meaning of descents
descents
Other Australian English words related to descents
Nearest Words of descents
- descends (on or upon) => descends (on or upon)
- descending (on or upon) => descending (on or upon)
- descendents => descendants
- descended (on or upon) => descend (on or upon)
- descend (on or upon) => descend (on or upon)
- descants => descants
- desanctify => Desanctify
- desanctified => desecrated
- desacralizing => Desanctifying
- desacralized => desecrated
Definitions and Meaning of descents in English
descents
the act or process of descending, a sudden disconcerting appearance (as for a visit), an inclination downward, one's line of ancestors, a way (such as a downgrade or stairway) that descends or leads downward, a step downward in a scale of gradation, attack, invasion, the act or process of descending from a higher to a lower location, the lowest part, one generation in an ancestral line or genealogical scale, a downward step (as in station or value), the fact or process of originating by generation from an ancestral stock (as a species or genus), the shaping or development in nature and character by transmission from a source, derivation from an ancestor, transmission or devolution of the estate of a person who has died without a valid will compare distribution, the act or process of descending from a higher to a lower level, rank, or state, a former method of distillation in which the material was heated in a vessel having its outlet underneath so that the vapors produced were forced to descend, a sudden raid or assault, a descending way (as a stairway), the fact or process of originating from an ancestral stock, a downward slant, transmission or devolution of an estate (see estate entry 1 sense 4b) by inheritance usually in the descending line
FAQs About the word descents
descents
the act or process of descending, a sudden disconcerting appearance (as for a visit), an inclination downward, one's line of ancestors, a way (such as a downgra
dips,downs,drops,falls,declines,plunges,falls,Downgrades
advancements,ascents,climbs,rises,risings,upswings,upturns,improvements,progresses,Progressions
descends (on or upon) => descends (on or upon), descending (on or upon) => descending (on or upon), descendents => descendants, descended (on or upon) => descend (on or upon), descend (on or upon) => descend (on or upon),
