Definition of descent

"descent" in the noun sense

1. descent

a movement downward

2. origin, descent, extraction

properties attributable to your ancestry

"he comes from good origins"

3. descent

the act of changing your location in a downward direction

4. descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

5. descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope

a downward slope or bend

6. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

the descendants of one individual

"his entire lineage has been warriors"

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Quotations for descent

Fine clothes oftentimes hide a base descent. [ Proverb ]

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. [ Seneca ]

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [ Horace ]

From yon blue heaven above us bent, the grand old gardener and his wife smile at the claims of long descent. [ Tennyson ]

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. [ E. H. Chapin, D.D ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

descent in Scrabble®

The word descent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters descent:

SCENTED
(90 = 40 + 50)
DESCENT
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

descent, scented

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word descent

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In descent

SCENTED
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DESCENT
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descent in Words With Friends™

The word descent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters descent:

DESCENT
(107 = 72 + 35)
SCENTED
(107 = 72 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

descent, scented

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word descent

DESCENT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In descent

DESCENT
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SCENTED
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DESCENT
(101 = 66 + 35)
DESCENT
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DESCENT
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SCENTED
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Words within the letters of descent

2 letter words in descent (1 word)

3 letter words in descent (10 words)

6 letter words in descent (3 words)

7 letter words in descent (Anagrams) (2 words)

descent + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence descent

Words that start with descent (2 words)

Words with descent in them (4 words)

Words that end with descent (5 words)

Word Growth involving descent

Shorter words in descent

en cent scent

Longer words containing descent

descents incandescents

incandescent incandescently

incandescent incandescents

iridescent iridescently

iridescent viridescent

redescent