descent

Meanings

• a movement downward
• properties attributable to your ancestry;
• the act of changing your location in a downward direction
• the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
• a downward slope or bend
• the descendants of one individual;
• DESCENT n pl. -S the act of descending

Synonyms

• origin
• extraction
• line of descent
• lineage
• filiation
• declivity
• fall
• decline
• declination
• declension
• downslope
• line
• bloodline
• blood line
• blood
• pedigree
• ancestry
• parentage
• stemma
• stock

Scrabble Score: 10

descent is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

descent is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

descent is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

descent is a valid Words With Friends word

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