Dictionary Entry
declension
declension is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
- 2noun
A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
- 3noun
Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
- 4noun
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
- 5noun
The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
- 6noun
Rehearsing a word as declined.
- 7noun
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
"the first declension in Latin"
- 8noun
a downward slope or bend
- 9noun
process of changing to an inferior state
Synonyms
- 10noun
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
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