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📖 Определения и значения для слова descent

📒 an action of coming or going down

  • The plane began its descent to Heathrow.
  • (figurative) the country’s swift descent into anarchy
  • I made a slow and painful descent down the stairs.

📒 a slope going downwards

  • There is a gradual descent to the sea.

📒 a person’s family origins

  • to be of Scottish descent
  • descent from somebody He traces his line of descent from the Stuart kings.
  • She claims direct descent from Queen Victoria.
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