The meaning of DESCENT is derivation from an ancestor : birth, lineage. How to use descent in a sentence.

A steep descent from the peak brings you to a meadow. The plane is making its final descent into the airport.

Definition of descent noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

2. a. A way down: fashioned a descent with an ice axe. b. A downward incline or passage; a slope: watched the stones roll down the descent. 3. Hereditary derivation; lineage: a person of …

A descent is a surface that slopes downwards, for example the side of a steep hill. On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed.

There are 24 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun descent, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

the act, process, or fact of descending:[countable] The spectators watched the descent of the balloon. a downward inclination or slope:[countable] a gradual descent to the lake.

DESCENT definition: the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. See examples of descent used in a sentence.

descent meaning, definition, what is descent: the process of going down: Learn more.

In each case of what we call descent, it is still the first reproducing creature identically the same -- doing what it has done before -- only with such modifications as the struggle for existence and …