Usually means: Grammatical modification of nouns, adjectives.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word declension:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. declension: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. declension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. declension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. declension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. declension: Vocabulary.com
  6. Declension, declension: Wordnik
  7. declension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. declension: Wiktionary
  9. declension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. declension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. declension: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Declension, declension: Dictionary.com
  13. Declension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Declension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. declension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. declension: Rhymezone
  17. Declension: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. declension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. DECLENSION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. declension: Free Dictionary
  21. declension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. declension: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declension: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declension (linguistics), declension: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declension (linguistics), declension: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. declension: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. declension: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A falling off, decay or descent.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

Similar:
decl., declination, descent, descension, degression, downfalling, declinature, decline, drop, dehancement, more...

Opposite:
conjugation, inflection, gradation

Types:
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, more...

Phrases:
third declension, second declension, fourth declension, weak declension, declension class, more...

Adjectives:
third, first, second, spiritual, weak, religious, fourth, gradual, strong, moral, latin

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Similar:
decl., declination, descent, descension, degression, downfalling, declinature, decline, drop, dehancement, more...

Opposite:
conjugation, inflection, gradation

Types:
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, more...

Phrases:
third declension, second declension, fourth declension, weak declension, declension class, fifth declension, declension of the needle, first declension, Latin declension, Russian declension, Czech declension, more...

Adjectives:
third, first, second, spiritual, weak, religious, fourth, gradual, strong, moral, latin

Colors:
    gray,     sepia,     taupe,     charcoal,     pewter, more...



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