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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. descent: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. descent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. descent: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. descent: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Descent: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. descent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. descent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. descent: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. descent: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. descent: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. descent: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Descent (Dead Zone), Descent (Outer Limits episode), Descent (Stargate SG-1), Descent (TNG episode), Descent (The Outer Limits), Descent (X-Men episode), Descent (aircraft), Descent (category theory), Descent (computer game), Descent (episode), Descent (font), Descent (game), Descent (kinship), Descent (novel), Descent, The Descent (novel), The Descent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. Descent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. descent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. descent: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. descent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. descent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. descent: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  19. descent: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. descent: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. descent: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. descent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. descent: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  24. descent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Descent: Natural Magick [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. descent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  2. descent: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Descent: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  4. DESCENT: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  5. Descent (episode), Descent (movie), descent: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Descent: Game Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Descent (episode), Descent (font), Descent (movie), descent: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. descent: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Descent (episode), Descent (movie), descent: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. descent: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Descent: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Descent: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
  3. Descent: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Descent: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]

Quick definitions (descent)

noun:  the act of changing your location in a downward direction
noun:  a movement downward
noun:  a downward slope or bend
noun:  the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
noun:  properties attributable to your ancestry
noun:  the descendants of one individual

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Phrases that include descent:   unilateral descent, curve of quickest descent, european malay descent, gradient descent method, infinite descent, more...

Words similar to descent:   ancestry, blood, bloodline, decline, declivity, downslope, extraction, fall, filiation, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, blood line, line of descent, rappelling, more...


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