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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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)
Downward climb
Mountain climber's return Family Time 15 Apr 2024
Politics ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 09 Apr 2024
Ancestry 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
Republicans ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 16 Oct 2020
Ancestry 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
Politics ultimately in moral decline The Sun Two Speed 12 Jun 2019
Downward slope 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
Ancestry
Darwin's study
Landing element
Fear Factory song that goes down?
Mountain climber's return
Second half of a mountaineer's trip
Mountain climber's return
Mountain climber's return
Half of a mountaineering expedition
Heard opposition coming down (7)
Plane maneuver
Start of a trip in a bathysphere
Extraction
Downward path
Fall
Fall
Drop
Landing preceder
Rocket maneuver
Continued reduction in altitude
Continued reduction in altitude
Flight pattern
Flight portion
A ___ of woodpeckers
Scuba diver's dive
Downward inclination
Rocket maneuver
Trip to a mine
Drop
Elevator experience
Lineage
Down slope
Lineage
Drop from above
Rappelling
Fall
Downward slope
Heritage
Comedown.
Lineage.
Fall.
Pedigree.
A parachute drop.
Downward course.
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