Word "DESCENT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a downward slope or bend
Synonyms:
declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the descendants of one individual
Synonyms:
ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Synonyms:
filiation, line of descent, lineage

Crossword Clues for DESCENT

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Lineage The Times Concise 20 Aug 2025
Action of moving downwards (7)
Fall for some French perfume (7)
Remove perfume? That's a comedown The Times Quick Cryptic 02 Jul 2025
Downward movement of French currency (7)
It's a comedown in one's genealogy (7)
Family tree reveals this sudden visit
Notes perfume is in decline (7)
Make it impossible to sniff out one's ancestry? (7)
Progress downward
Decline to give one's ancestry (7)
Getting down to one's ancestry (7)
Some foreign currency in fall? (7) The Guardian Quiptic 27 Apr 2025
Ancestry The Sun Two Speed 17 Apr 2025
Ancestry could be quite a comedown (7)
Republicans ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 17 Apr 2025
Proper to have small dip (7)
Familial background Commuter 01 Apr 2025
Comedown Premier Sunday 16 Mar 2025
Decline of genealogy (7)
Coming down to pedigree (7)
Downward trip Commuter 03 Mar 2025
Slump in pedigree (7)
With one's lineage, it's a comedown (7)
Plane's return
Drop of continental perfume
Lineage New York Times 02 Feb 2025
Ancestry The Telegraph Quick 01 Feb 2025
Downward trip Commuter 28 Jan 2025
Not bad getting a second in, but it's a comedown (7)
Going down to show the older members of the family (7)
Decline to use something to take the smell away? (7)
Scented the possibility of a comedown (7)
Drop pedigree (7)
Route down from peak
Plane's landing approach (7)
Journey down south in nice surroundings (7)
Getting down to pedigree (7)
Son breaking satisfactory bloodline The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Dec 2024
Decline to reveal the pedigree (7)
Son stifled by 'worthy' ancestry (7) The Guardian Cryptic 14 Nov 2024
Going down on one's family tree (7)
"Lineage not bad," the son put in (7)
Drop old penny then pick up small European coin The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Oct 2024
Son is captivated by proper ancestry (7)
Declivity The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 16 Oct 2024
Succeeded probing modest ancestry The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Oct 2024
Kind to carry son in downward journey The Times Quick Cryptic 05 Oct 2024
Chap getting very little money from his ancestry (7)
Drop of French perfume The Times Quick Cryptic 28 Sep 2024
It ends at a low point
Fall Thomas Joseph 06 Sep 2024
Make sure there's not a whiff of, in the lineage? (7)
"Lineage not bad," the second interposed (7)
Remove perfume for the trip down? (7)
With one's lineage, that's a come-down (7)
Downward climb Newsday 16 Jul 2024
Lineage of a family that's come down in the world? (7)
Getting down to one's lineage (7)
Downward trip Commuter 21 Jun 2024
Drop a trail of blood? The Times Cryptic 19 Jun 2024
Son in fairly good journey down mountain? The Times Quick Cryptic 05 Jun 2024
Slow fall
Family tree reveals this down-to-earth approach?
Plane's downward movement before landing
Downward slope Mirror Tea Time 24 Apr 2024
One's family background reveals a comedown (7)
Mountain climber's return Family Time 15 Apr 2024
Ancestry The Sun Two Speed 09 Apr 2024
Politics ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 09 Apr 2024
Drop bearing into fitting (7)
Proper to include son in lineage The Times Quick Cryptic 28 Mar 2024
The fall of French currency
Way down from the tree (7)
Downward travel Commuter 01 Mar 2024
The climb-down is quite proper when society is included (7)
Going down on one's genealogical chart
Drop of Parisian eau de Cologne, say
Downhill journey
Drop The Telegraph Quick 26 Dec 2023
Dropping from one's family tree (7)
Front of some fairly good houses subsiding The Telegraph Toughie 10 Nov 2023
Downward journey USA Today 24 Feb 2023
Downward journey Universal 09 Oct 2022
Drop line The Guardian Cryptic 25 May 2022
Downslope The Telegraph Quick 04 May 2022
Man climbing trail — before he makes this? The Guardian Quiptic 22 Nov 2021
Man climbing trail — before he makes this?
Ancestry The Telegraph Quick 11 Aug 2021
Drop of French perfume
Drop protest, we're told The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Feb 2021
Trip to the bottom USA Today 22 Jan 2021
Ancestry The Sun Two Speed 16 Oct 2020
Republicans ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 16 Oct 2020
Son will be taken in by respectable lineage The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Oct 2020
Advisers ultimately in moral decline The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Sep 2020
Remove perfume from line? The Telegraph Toughie 03 Jul 2020
High-to-low movement USA Today 19 May 2020
Downward journey The Telegraph Quick 23 Apr 2020
Son admitted to proper nationality
Climber's downward journey The Washington Post 27 Jan 2020
Climber's downward journey LA Times Daily 27 Jan 2020
Head of state taken in by respectable pedigree The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Nov 2019
Sound of object coming down
Fall Thomas Joseph 12 Sep 2019
Downward slope The Sun Two Speed 12 Jun 2019
Politics ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 12 Jun 2019
Touchdown predecessor Wall Street Journal 06 Apr 2019
Drop of perfume French
Touchdown predecessor
Leader of society in moral decline The Telegraph Toughie 14 Nov 2018
Ancestry New York Times 04 Nov 2018
Society in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 09 Oct 2018
Start of a scuba dive USA Today 09 Aug 2018
Ancestry
Start of a scuba dive
Genealogist's concern Newsday 30 Jul 2017
Regularly avoided edge on trail going downhill
Climber's return trip USA Today 15 Feb 2017
Spelunker's activity New York Times 01 Oct 2016
Downward move The Telegraph Quick 14 Jul 2016
Lineage The Guardian Quick 21 May 2016
Decline scented make-up
Modest, taking small plunge The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Apr 2016
Drop of French perfume
Journey down The Telegraph Quick 26 Feb 2016
Downward path The Times Concise 14 Jan 2016
Spelunker's activity
Mountain climber's return trip LA Times Daily 22 Jun 2015
Decline to remove odour?
Mountain climber's return trip
Darwin's study
Ancestry
Landing element
Mountain climber's return
Fear Factory song that goes down?
Second half of a mountaineer's trip
Mountain climber's return
Half of a mountaineering expedition
Mountain climber's return
Plane maneuver
Heard opposition coming down (7)
Start of a trip in a bathysphere
Downward path
Extraction
Rocket maneuver
Fall
Drop
Landing preceder
Fall
Continued reduction in altitude
Continued reduction in altitude
Flight pattern
Flight portion
A ___ of woodpeckers
Scuba diver's dive
Drop
Rocket maneuver
Trip to a mine
Elevator experience
Downward inclination
Lineage
Down slope
Lineage
Drop from above
Rappelling
Fall
Downward slope
Heritage
Lineage.
A parachute drop.
Downward course.
Comedown.
Pedigree.
Fall.
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