Synonyms of the word

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

ancestry

• n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
• n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

blood

• n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen…
• n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to…
• n. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
• n. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
• n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
• n. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
• n. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
• n. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
• v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
• v. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
• v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

bloodline

• n. The abstract link between a person and their ancestors.
• n. The pedigree of an animal.
• n. By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.

declension

• n. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective…
• n. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

declination

• n. At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
• n. At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the…
• n. A refusal.
• n. (grammar) Declension.
• n. (archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination.
• n. (archaic) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay;…
• n. (archaic) Deviation.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

declivity

• n. (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill.
• n. a downward bend in a path.

derivation

• n. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
• n. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition,…
• n. The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy.
• n. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
• n. That from which a thing is derived.
• n. That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
• n. (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called…
• n. (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a…

downslope

• adj. in a direction down a slope.
• adv. down a slope.
• n. a descent or declivity.

extraction

• n. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
• n. A person's origin or ancestry.
• n. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
• n. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
• n. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

filiation

• n. (uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent.
• n. (countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline.
• n. (countable, law) The determination of paternity.
• n. (countable, law) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.

genealogy

• n. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
• n. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
• n. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

kinship

• n. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
• n. relation or connection by nature or character.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

lineage

• n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line…
• n. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

parentage

• n. The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
• n. The social quality of one's class in society.
• n. origin; derivation.

pedigree

• n. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
• n. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
• n. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
• n. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
• n. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
• adj. Having a pedigree.
• adj. Purebred.

relationship

• n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
• n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
• n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
• n. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.
• n. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

stemma

• n. A family tree or recorded genealogy.
• n. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
• n. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

stock

• n. A store or supply.
• n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
• n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
• n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
• n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• n. A bar, stick or rod.
• n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
• n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
• n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
• n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
• n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
• n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
• n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
• n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
• n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
• n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
• n. The beater of a fulling mill.
• v. To have on hand for sale.
• v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
• v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
• v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
• v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
• v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
• adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
• adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
• adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
• n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.