n. going down; downward slope; lineage; sudden attack; handing down of property; act of lowering oneself morally

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Noun
1. a movement downward
(hypernym) change of location, travel
(hyponym) drop, fall
(derivation) descend, fall, go down, come down
2. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
(synonym) origin, extraction
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(hyponym) full blood
3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
(hypernym) motion, movement, move
(hyponym) abseil
4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
(synonym) line of descent, lineage, filiation
(hypernym) kinship, family relationship, relationship
(hyponym) bilateral descent
(derivation) derive, come, descend
5. a downward slope or bend
(synonym) declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
(antonym) ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
(hypernym) slope, incline, side
(hyponym) downhill
6. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
(derivation) derive, come, descend

n. původ; sestup

Rzecz. obniżenie; zejście; pochodzenie