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Meaning of 'declension' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Declension [ n.]
- The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
- A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
- Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
- Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
- The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
- Rehearsing a word as declined.

Meaning of 'declension' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . declension [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
Example in sentence:
  • the first declension in Latin

Nearby Words:

deca- decacerata decachord decachordon decad decadal decade decadence decadency decadent

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