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Nouns (30)

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n. [the act or process of moving downwards]

n. a movement downward

n. the act of changing your location in a downward direction

origin, descent, extraction

n. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation

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

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

n. a downward slope or bend

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

n. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

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Fuzzynyms (22)

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fall

n. a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"

n. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

n. a very steep cliff

waterfall, falls

n. a steep descent of the water of a river

ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation

n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

n. a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

n. aristocratic family line; "the House of York"

n. the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"

race

n. people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

n. an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

n. any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

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Antonyms (5)

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n. [the act or process of moving upwards]

n. hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did

offspring, progeny, issue

n. the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

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