descent

Other forms of descent

plural

descents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about descent

What does descent mean?

descent means "a movement downward". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in descent?

descent has 2 syllables: de-scent. The stress falls on "scent". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɛnt/.

What is another word for descent?

Close synonyms include origin, extraction, line of descent, lineage, filiation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of descent?

The recorded antonyms are ascent.

Is descent a common word?

descent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with descent?

9 words rhyme with descent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.