The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower., Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy., Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc., Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction., Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity., Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent., That which is descended; descendants; issue., A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation., Lowest place; extreme downward place., A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Lightening is the medical term meaning descent of the baby into the pelvis.
descent
Jerod is a variant of Jared, which is a Hebrew name meaning "descent".
Jared is a Hebrew name meaning "descent."
direct descent from an ancestor;
A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
In Louisiana, a person reputed to be Acadian French descent.
"Masson" is of Norman descent, meaning "stone-mason".
Descent is correct spelling if you are looking for a word meaning something or someone going downwards."The plane begins its descent along the runway".Decent is the correct spelling if you are looking for a word meaning satisfactory or moral."The meal was very decent".
Most of Paraguay's population could be termed "mestizos," meaning people of combined European and Native American descent.
Matrilineality is the system (not a country or religion) which follows descent through the female line. In contrast, a system that follows a male's line, is a patrilineal descent.
The meaning of the name "Emil" means to 'strive' or to 'excel' or to rival. The origins of this name is of German descent. However there is another school of though that suggests Emil is of Latin descent and means "eager" or "laborious" or "rival".