1. A movement downward
   "The hikers began their descent from the mountain peak"
    
2. The act of changing your location in a downward direction
   "The plane began its descent into the airport"
    
3. A downward slope or bend
   "The hikers carefully navigated the steep descent on the mountain path";
   - declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension [archaic], downslope
    
4. Properties attributable to your ancestry
   "His descent from nobility influenced his manners";
   - origin, extraction
    
5. The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
   "Her descent from royalty was a source of family pride";
   - line of descent, lineage, filiation
    
6. The hereditary derivation of an individual
   "his entire line of descent has been warriors";
   - lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
    
7. Moral, social or cultural decline
   "The country's descent into chaos"

Sounds like: dissen

Derived forms: descents

Type of: ancestry, change of location, derivation, family relationship, family tree, filiation, genealogy, incline, kinship, lineage, motion, move, movement, relationship, side, slope, travel

Encyclopedia: Descent, part I