descent
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
descent/dɪˈsent/
▶noun
- 1 the action of descending.
■ a downward slope.
- 2 a person's origin or nationality: the settlers were of Cornish descent.
■ transmission by inheritance.
- 3 (descent on) a sudden violent attack.
'descent' also found in these Oxford entries:
Afghan
- Afrikaner
- Afro-Caribbean
- Albanian
- ancestry
- Anglo-Celt
- Anglo-Indian
- Anglo-Irish
- Anglo-Saxon
- Argentinian
- Armenian
- Aryan
- ascent
- Ashkenazi
- Asian
- Asian American
- Australian
- Austrian
- avatar
- Azerbaijani
- bail
- bajada
- Belgian
- blood
- Briton
- Cambodian
- Chicano
- Chinese
- coloured
- coolie
- Creole
- criollo
- Croatian
- Czech
- Dane
- degree
- desi
- devolution
- direct
- Egyptian
- Englishman
- Estonian
- Ethiopian
- ethnic
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finn
- forbid
- Frenchman
