Descent
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
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Senses
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the act of changing your location in a downward direction
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properties attributable to your ancestry
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a movement downward
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the descendants of one individual
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a downward slope or bend
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- ancestrybloodblood linebloodlineextractionfallfiliationlineline of descentlineageoriginparentagepedigreestemmastock
- plural
- Descents
- possessive
- Descent's
- pluralpossessive
- Descents'